“We are not called to relate to God without a world. To love God we must also love what God loves. We are called to love this created world as God loves it. We are to help transform this universe from within by seeing Christ in the heart of matter – in all peoples, creatures, elements, stars, and galaxies. Such vision requires openness to new relationships, new ideas, abandoning messianic expectations, accepting incomplete-ness as part of life, recovering the capacity of wonder, and living in the primacy of love. Unless we realize the Christ in our own personal lives, however, we shall continue to suffer the violence of blind evolution. We have the capacity to heal this earth and bind its wounds in love, but do we have the desire?”
The Emergent Christ: Exploring the Meaning of Catholic in an Evolutionary Universe, by Ilia Delio, p. 150.