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

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.

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.

Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.

Kegagalan hanyalah keberhasilan yang tertunda.

The Bible is God's vision bank where you can withdraw raw materials to design your destiny.

Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper.

You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.

Some people say I'm the best back in the NFL. That's what drives you: You want everyone saying there's no doubt who's the best.

I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed.

Life is luck, make it.

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.