In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

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.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world.

If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.

A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen

I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

The secret of passion is purpose.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.