Intriguingly truthful quote from Jacques Ellul

Revelation does not hold up and is not antinihilist unless one holds all elements together in indissoluble fashion, unless the transcendent God is also he who incarnates himself into history, unless the hidden God is also he who reveals himself - and reciprocally the revealed God is also the hidden God - unless holiness (separation) is the condition of love (and vice versa), unless faith produces works and works are necessarily a byproduct of faith, unless everything is done by God and yet we also have to do everything, unless God is sovereignly free and we are free also (not conditioned in any way in spite of foreknowledge and predestination), unless salvation is granted by pure grace and works are useless and yet works are strictly indispensible before God... - Jacques Ellul - from The Subversion of Christianity