You Alone, my God, are Stable

The power to appreciate and to open the
heart is indispensable to the awakening
and the maintenance of the mystical appetite.
But all the raptures they bring put together
are not so effective as the icy chill of a
disappointment in knowing that you alone,
my God, are stable. It is through sorrow,
and not through joy, that your Godhead
gradually assumes, in our sentient faculty,
the higher Reality it possesses in the
nature of things."

- Teilhard de Chardin,
Writings in Times of War -