Jacques Ellul Quotes

God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home.

There is never a reason to lose hope. Jesus says: “I am with you until the end of the world.

The Holy Ghost is the greatest guarantor of inward peace in our unstable world.

Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

God walks with us. He scoops us up in His arms or simply sits with us in silent strength until we cannot avoid the awesome recognition that yes, even now, He is there.

A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce.

We are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles.

I was constantly around all those religious images and to me, angels exist. I feel we were definitely guided and helped and I'm always referring to them in my work.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Prayer moves the arm that moves the world.

Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet.

If I were to go to heaven, and find that Christ was not there, I would leave immediately; for heaven without Christ would be hell to me.

Christ before me, Christ behind me,Christ in me.

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.

Did you know that I exist before the earth and did you know my eyes are windows to the world.

Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.

Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?

The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.

I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think within me, from acting for and with Jesus to letting him act through me. I know the only way for me to see the world is to see it through his eyes.