De Chardin On the Divinity of Matter

"By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails
us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and
inaccessible,
whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers . . . This
palpable world, which we are used to treating with the boredom and disrespect
with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association, is a
holy place."
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, *The Divine Milieu*