There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.

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.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

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.

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

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.