God is not an encyclopedia whose task is to satisfy our curiosity.

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.

Hope is the light through which we see the future.

Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

I like comedy as a group sport.

I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.

I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.