Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

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.

...love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down

There is no such thing as magic, " she told me. "You can b e l i e v e all you want, but it's never going to do you any good. Nobody flies. We only fall

A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse.So much worse, Mom said.But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn't.You did so good, Mom said.Did beautiful, Dad said.

I would love to see her set you on fire.

Reality shows are usually created by people doing and saying stupid things.

Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.