What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance. — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are fighting for ideals. We are fighting for oil and tin and rubber and markets, and as long as… — 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
