Behold a tree. Does it not speak to us thusly: 'Don't you see that God is not working himself into a frenzy in me? I am calmly, quietly, silently pouring forth my life and bringing forth fruit. Do thou likewise.' — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
God will seek us -- how long? Until he finds us. And when he's found the last little shriveling rebellious soul and has depopulated… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh. — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith. — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ's body must… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
Behold a tree. Does it not speak to us thusly: 'Don't you see that God is not working himself into a frenzy in me?… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
The crowning evidence that Jesus was alive was not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled away stone, but a carried… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
The resurrection of Jesus was simply God's unwillingness to take our 'no' for an answer. He raised Jesus, not as an invitation to us… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
