Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

We are collaborators in creation.

The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

To love is to approach each other center to center.