Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMore primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinOver every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words: This is my Body. And over every death-force which waits in readiness to corrode, to wither, to cut down, speak again your commanding words which express the supreme mystery of faith: This is my Blood.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin