Science (which means all forms of human activity) and Religion have always been for me one and the same thing; both have been, so far as I have been concerned, the pursuit of one and the same Object.
I see the Universe as a certain eminently great and precious Entity. I am habitually conscious of its Totality, of its ‘Becoming’, of the countless potentialities it contains. And in the presence of this majesty, I must confess that many restless human activities seem to me singularly unworthy of notice.
I see the Universe as supremely inclusive and dominant. I feel that I am involved in it, locked into it, contained within it. I feel that I cannot take full possession of my own self except by extending my self into a certain perfection which runs through all things—so that my own fulfilment must be in, and with, the universality of Creation.
I can distinguish in the Universe a profound, essential Unity, a unity burdened with imperfections, a unity still sadly ‘pulverulent’, but a real unity within which every ‘chosen’ substance gains increasing solidity.
God Our Lord, the revealed End of the Universe.
Meritorious action can be effected with the consciousness of acting in union with the whole Universe.
Heaven cannot dispense with Earth.
The great temptation of this century is that we find the World of nature, of life, and of mankind greater, closer, more mysterious, more alive, than the God of Scripture.