Prayer Is Not A Discourse. It Is

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.

I Believe That The Biblical Teaching Is Clear. It Always Contests Political Power. It Incites To "counterpower," To "positive" Criticism, To An Irreducible Dialogue (like That Between King And Prophet In Israel), To Antistatism, To A Decentralizing Of The Relation, To An Extreme Relativizing Of Everything Political, To An Anti-ideology, To A Questioning Of All That Claims Either Power Or Dominion (in Other Words, Of All Things Political), And Finally, If We May Use A Modern Term, To A Kind Of "anarchism" (so Long As We Do Not Relate The Term To The Anarchist Teaching Of The Nineteenth Century).

Modern Technology Has Become A Total Phenomenon For Civilization, The Defining Force Of A New Social Order In Which Efficiency Is No Longer An Option But A Necessity Imposed On All Human Activity.

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.

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.