We are like soldiers who fall during the assault which leads to peace. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal".