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Jacques Ellul Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.

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.



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.

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.



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.

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.



The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief



No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.

No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.



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.

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.



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

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



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

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



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

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



The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must so act that it cannot take place.

The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must so act that it cannot take place.





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It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?



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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.



Sleeping only six hours a night for a week in a row will make you feel on that eighth day as if you'd gotten no sleep at all. Seven and a half to eight hours remains the sweet spot.

Sleeping only six hours a night for a week in a row will make you feel on that eighth day as if you'd gotten no sleep at all. Seven and a half to eight hours remains the sweet spot.



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