With the boldness of Your Revelation, drive away, my God, the timidity of childish thinking that does not dare to imagine anything greater or more vibrant in the world than the poor perfection of our human organism! On the way to a bolder understanding of the universe, the children of the world surpass the teachers of Israel daily. (…) If I could not believe that Your true Presence animates, refines, and warms even the smallest force that penetrates or touches me, I would most likely die of cold, chilled to the marrow of my being.
(Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ /1881–1955/, excerpt from the text Mass over the World;
quoted from the book Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Heart of Matter, Malvern 2024)
