Some time ago, the thought of God's Will occurred to me: have you considered that it is in a way materialized, indeed embodied in the deepest part of ourselves, through time? Time that sweeps us away and dictates our pace, time that passes too quickly or too slowly, time that mercilessly separates us from the desired date or propels the hours reserved for meetings forward so quickly; time that stands against us making improvements we have dreamed of for ourselves and for others in the blink of an eye; time that causes our aging... At the source of this essential and universal determinism is God's creative activity: let us acknowledge it and fall in love with it.
(Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ /1881–1955/, letter from the front, to his cousin, June 19, 1916;
quoted from the book Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Birth of Thought. Letters 1914–1919, Malvern 2021)
