"No technique is possible when men are free.... Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being."

-- Jacques Ellul

#Men Quotes #Technique Quotes #Predictions Quotes

“Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.”
“A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.”
“SO when I got word from three different sets of people who all said Manson had cancer, I knew I couldn't get straight info from his staff and had no choice but to go over the fence for it.”
“In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.”
“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”
“in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.”
“To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.359, tredition
“It is not just that we exist and God has always existed, it is also that God necessarily exists in an infinitely better, stronger, more excellent way. The difference between God's being and ours is more than the difference between the sun and a candle, more than the difference between the ocean and a raindrop... God's being is qualitatively different.”

Source : Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.148, Harper Collins

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