Giorgio Buccellati

“The biblical God is the city’s conditor because he created the conditions that made it possible, conditions which must continue to govern this human efflorescence that is the city, precisely if we want it to remain human.”

“Both the stark denial and the more thinly veiled perception of a pagan world reflect . . . the irrepressible irruption of a divine presence that cannot be but trinitarian.”

“The Trinity is inevitably present in seed form wherever God is sensed.”

“Even the most active Christian action does not spring from a totally autonomous center, because our autonomy is rooted in responding as much as in initiating. We must act without ultimate control on the modality of the outcome.”

“The relevance of monotheism to the introduction of pricing (and money) is in the affirmation of values, not primarily in the implementation of techniques. The unifying thread is the posture of facing rather than of seizing.”

“On Mary’s word, Joseph accepted, however much through a glass darkly, that the Annunciation was the Incarnation.”