Alive Quote by Clarence Jordan

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

Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.

— Clarence Jordan

Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities

— Clarence Jordan

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

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

— Clarence Jordan

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love

— Clarence Jordan

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

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

What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.

— Clarence Jordan

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

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

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