Clarence Jordan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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, a father waiting for his son.
-- Clarence Jordan

#Father #Son #Sheep
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 off these poisons and let love permeate and cleanse every tissue and cell. Nor are we to allow ourselves to become easily discouraged when love is not always obviously successful or pleasant. Love never quits, even when an enemy has hit you on the right cheek and you have turned the other, and he's also hit that.
-- Clarence Jordan

#Hate #Successful #Love Is
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

#Wise #Needs #Charity
The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love
-- Clarence Jordan

#Christian #Depth #Height
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 church.
-- Clarence Jordan

#Jesus #Church #Alive
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 of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
-- Clarence Jordan

#Race #People #Together
Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.
-- Clarence Jordan

#Soul #Walk By Faith #Polio
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 come to heaven when we die, but as a declaration that he himself has now established permanent, eternal residence here on earth. He is standing beside us, strengthening us in this life. The good news of the resurrection of Jesus is not that we shall die and go home to be with him, but that he has risen and comes home with us, bringing all his hungry, naked, thirsty, sick prisoner brothers with him.
-- Clarence Jordan

#Brother #Jesus #Home
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, then death will be swallowed up in victory, and Christ will turn over all things to the Father that he may be all and in all. Then every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
-- Clarence Jordan

#Jesus #Father #Long
What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.
-- Clarence Jordan

#Needs #Charity #Coworker
Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities
-- Clarence Jordan

#Dream #Reality #Unseen
Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.
-- Clarence Jordan

#Belief #Spite #Evidence
Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.
-- Clarence Jordan

#Reality #Soul #Unseen
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

#Tree #Doe #Pouring
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 so dim that the tormentor can't see it? What are the things we do that are worth persecuting?
-- Clarence Jordan

#Christian #Light #Today

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