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.

If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in a technological civilization, with greater adaptation and increasing success as his sole objectives; if we do not even consider the possibility of making a stand against these determinants, then everything will happen as I have described it, and the determinates will be transformed into inevitabilities.

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.

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

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

Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.