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 acc….

Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will ultimately lead to the Kingdom of God. I ….

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

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 o….

Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society..

No technique is possible when men are free. Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that tech….

I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an irred….

God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is G….

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society..

Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge..

When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them.

One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witnes….

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it..

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

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

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 ….

Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization….

Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other o….

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 mystica….

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

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read..