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

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Source : Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Clarence Jordan

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“With every project, you feel like you're trying to find your place to vent. For any actor, that's typically the feeling that drives you to do it.”

Source : "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.
“A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than from event to event.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.”
“As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.”
“I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.”
“I believe that that foolish man of Galilee, Jesus Christ, had something to tell us, to tell me. Not considering his existence here, I would immediately go into despair. Immediately. And forgetting him, I would first despair of the institutional church and its hierarchy, and only later, of the Jews.”

Source : "Children of Ishmael: an interview with Fr Elias Chacour". Interview with Jim Forest, jimandnancyforest.com. September 20, 2011.
“You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.”

Source : "They Never Said it: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by Paul F. Boller and John H. George, 1990.
“It takes me a LONG time to make a big purchase.”

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