'The Prayer of the Universe' is a prayer by the French Jesuit priest, paleontologist, and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, which is a central piece in his book Hymn of the Universe. The prayer speaks of an immanent and transcendent God, describing a divine force that is 'as implacable as the world and as warm as life' and is found in the very fabric of the universe. It is a prayer of unification and of finding the divine not just in spiritual concepts but in the material world and scientific discovery.