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

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.

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.

Be a smile on someone's lips.

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re" ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.

What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!

A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.

If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.

The hardest part about being vegan is shoes. I mean, really, that's the only difficult part, finding shoes that don't have leather on them.

The amateur has an infectious, contagious enthusiasm for golf and life.

The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.