“The only palliative (for the mistakes of our time) is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books. Not, of course, that there is any magic about the past. People were no cleverer then than they are now; they made as many mistakes as we. But not the same mistakes.” (C S Lewis)
“These ideas were especially powerful because Ellul was speaking biblical truth from a European perspective, uncluttered by American bias.” (Jay Kesler, re Jacques Ellul's The Presence of the Kingdom)