Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live,… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society , from politics , from history… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
People think that they have no right to judge a fact - all they have to do is to accept it. Thus… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
“No society can last in conditions of anarchy. This is self-evident and I am in full agreement. But my aim is not the establishment… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
