The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

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.

To be loyal, it will require a dedication only you can provide. And when you begin to feel withdrawn, it may be that your passion, in your dedication, has run its course.

I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.

Every driven person comes from a mountain of pain they wish to keep hidden.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.

Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool.

I try to create a place of disorientation.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.