Until the end, we will drag along with us the disordered and unfinished: it is essential to find the center of unification, God, and during life to faithfully hand over the governance of ourselves to Him – in that tiny fraction of being that we manage and that belongs to us so little. One beautiful day, which will come quickly (there is no long life), Jesus Christ will reveal Himself within ourselves, and all the elements we have so laboriously tried to turn to Him will finally gather themselves into their rightful position. In a certain sense, little depends on the success of our efforts (God can fix everything with a blink of an eye): only the efforts themselves have value…
(Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ /1881–1955/, letter from the front, to his cousin, August 22, 1915;
quoted from the book Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Birth of Thought. Letters 1914–1919, Malvern 2021)
