I think it is inaccurate to state that people seek more security in religious life by "limiting" their activities; if they believed that, it would indeed be a pity and hardly to the credit of Providence. No, to direct (focus) does not mean to limit. Accept this as a principle and tirelessly repeat this around you: one of the surest signs of the truth of religion, generally and especially in the soul, is to observe to what extent it leads to action, that is, to what extent it manages to draw out from the deep springs that are within each of us a certain maximum of energy and effort. Action and sanctification go hand in hand and support each other.
(Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ /1881–1955/, letter from the front, to a cousin, July 4, 1915;
quoted from the book Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Birth of Thinking. Letters 1914–1919, 2021)
