Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

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

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.

Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single category of science and only a short period of time

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact

It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and damnation. There can only be one predestination to salvation. In and through Jesus Christ all people are predestined to be saved. Our free choice is ruled out in this regard. God wants free people, except in relation to this last and definitive decision. We are not free to decide and choose to be damned.

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.