Jacques Ellul Quotes

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• Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient…
• God is not an encyclopedia whose task it is to satisfy our curiosity.
• Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.
• The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct.
• Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will ultimately lead to…
• It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and damnation.…
• And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world
• Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.
• Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single category…
• When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them
• Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
• Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.
• The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it.
• For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood…
• 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…
• Fate operates when people give up
• (Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes…
• 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…
• For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the…
• 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…

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