“If the Cross is to reign over an earth that has suddenly awaken to consciousness of a biological movement drawing it ahead, then at all costs and as soon as possible it must (if it is to be able to coexist with human nature which it claims to save) present itself as a sign, not merely of ‘escape’, but of progress. It must have for us not merely a purifying but a driving brilliance.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Christianity and Evolution, p. 217
Teilhard de Chardin 