The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.
Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
Everything that rises must converge.
This it the greatest success I can dream of for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.
At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.
Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.
Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself.
To love is to approach each other center to center.
By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.
We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.
Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.