Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building its composite brain beneath our eyes. May it not be that tomorrow, through the logical and biological deepening of the movement drawing it together, it will find its heart, without which the ultimate wholeness of its power of unification can never be achieved?

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world.

Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.