God Works In Many Ways His Wonders

The Aim Is Not To Give Human Beings Real Goals That Warrant Belief, And Tasks To Share In, But To Re-establish "belonging," Although This Kind Of Speech And Thought Is Precisely Calculated To Avoid Contact And So Makes Belonging Impossible.

It Takes Application, A Fine Sense Of Value, And A Powerful Community-spirit For A People To Have Serious Leisure, And This Has Not Been The Genius Of The Americans.

The Ideal Of Having A Real Job That You Risk Your Soul In And Make Good Or Be Damned, Belongs To The Heroic Age Of Capitalist Enterprise, Imbued With Self-righteous Beliefs About Hard Work, Thrift, And Public Morals. Such An Ideal Might Still Have Been Mentioned In Public Fifty Years Ago; In Our Era Of Risk-insured Semimonopolies And Advertised Vices It Would Be Met With A Ghastly Stillness.

When The Sciences Are Supreme, Average People Lose Their Feeling Of Causality.

God Works In Many Ways His Wonders To Perform. But He's Not A Skillful Mechanic. A Man Drived Over A Cliff And "by A Miracle" He Only Breaks His Back. It Would Be More Divine If He Were A Better Driver And Stayed On The Road.