Pierre Teilhard de Chardin- On Patience in Spiritual Growth Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We would like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability- and that it may take a very long time.   And so I think it is with you. Your ideas mature gradually- let them grow, let them shape themselves, without undue haste.   Don’t try to force them on, as though you could be today what time- (that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will) will make of you tomorrow.   Only God could say what this new Spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you,   and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense, and incomplete.     Famous Quotes by Teilhard de Chardin           We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend…….