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Christian Quotes by Jacques Ellul
- Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 the…
- Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely,…
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