“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”

“Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless.”

“We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.”

“Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.”

“By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.”

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

“We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.”