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.

We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.

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

Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.

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

The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in order to make use of technical instruments, no longer needs to know about his civilization.

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