Ellul’s The Subversion of Christianity is just too good to contain within one Weekend Wisdom post. Here’s the last of five good quotes:

Believers, then, are those who have the wisdom and strength to rob material realities of their seductive power, to unmask them for what they are, no more, and to put them in the service of God, diverting them totally from their own law.

—Jacques Ellul, The Subversion of Christianity, 190.