Clarence Jordan Quotes

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• It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside…
• What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.
• 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 to…
• Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities
• God will seek us -- how long? Until he finds us. And when he's found the last little shriveling rebellious soul and has depopulated hell,…
• 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 away…
• Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.
• 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…
• One wonders why Christians today get off so easily. Is it because unchristian Americans are that much better than unchristian Romans, or is our light…
• The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love
• 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 throw…
• 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 coins,…
• Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.
• Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.
• 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…

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