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Fate Operates When People Give Up

Fate Operates When People Give Up

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Phil Christman
May 21, 2023
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“Fate operates when people give up” is something Jacques Ellul said once, I think in a book of interviews. I think about it a lot. Ellul doesn’t say a lot of things that I would classify as “hopeful,” although when he does it tends to be a doozy. (I remember being in a coffeehouse actually crying a little from relief at his almost offhand comment in The…

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