The God for whom our century is waiting must be:

  • as vast and mysterious as the Cosmos
  • as immediate and all-embracing as Life
  • as linked to our effort as Humankind

A God who made the World less mysterious or smaller,
or less important to us
than our heart and reason show it to be,
that God, less beautiful than the God we await –
will never more be the One to whom the Earth kneels.

— Teilhard de Chardin in Teilhard de Chardin: A Book of Hours by Teilhard de Chardin, Kathleen Deignan (ed.), Libby Osgood (ed.)