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.

It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its energies to the accumulation of goods, that material poverty became a major problem. Obviously, this meant abandonment or downgrading of spiritual values, virtue, etc. To share or not to share in the increase of the collective wealth-this was the Number One question. It was the desire to acquire wealth that prompted the poor to start fighting.

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.

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.

God is not an encyclopedia whose task is to satisfy our curiosity.

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 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.