Jacques Ellul Quotes

If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and with that same logic.

Every creature is a word of God.

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

The word of God is a Christian's instructions for life. God speaks to us through His word, so we cannot constantly be running on empty.

The word of God - what does it say about what his place is going to be in the Kingdom? Think about it.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.

The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.

I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through the angel Gabriel, had the power they did because they indicated new truths, new directions for followers.

A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.

My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.

At the end of the day, everything is God's plan, and he cares about what we do. He cares about our hearts, how we play the game, and how we treat people. He's definitely involved with how we handle sports and not just the outcome of it. I'm proud when athletes mention God in any way.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Each of you is a unique child of God. God knows you individually. He sends messages of encouragement, correction, and direction fitted to you and to your needs.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.

I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.