Until the end, we will drag along the disordered and unfinished: what is essential is to find the center of unity, God, and during life to faithfully relinquish control within ourselves – in that tiny fragment of being that we govern and that belongs to us so little. One beautiful day, which will come quickly (there is no long life), Jesus Christ will show Himself within us, all the elements we have struggled so hard to turn towards Him will ultimately group themselves into their rightful place. In a sense, little depends on the success of our efforts (God can rectify everything in the blink of an eye): only the efforts matter...
(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 Thinking. Letters 1914–1919, Malvern 2021)
