Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.

When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must so act that it cannot take place.

There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

One day the clean technique will come to my head

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

Almost every great achievement began with someone finally getting ticked off, saying, 'Enough!' and standing up to fight.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.

I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.