Lord Jesus, who are as gentle as the human heart, as fiery as the forces of nature, as intimate as life itself, you in whom I can melt away and with whom I must have mastery and freedom: I love you as a world, as this world which has captivated my heart; and it is you, I now realize, that my brother-men, even those who do not believe, sense and seek through the magic immensities of the cosmos.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Spirit of Fire by Ursula King