"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."

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Source : Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Clarence Jordan

#Brother Quotes #Jesus Quotes #Home Quotes

“When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.”
“I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.”
“I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.”
“The person that inspires me and has inspired me my whole life is my grandmother. She's strong, head of the household, the person everyone turns to, the one that can solve problems. She's just so warm and caring, loving, but at the same time very strong and can do anything, in my eyes. A great role model and someone that I aspire to be like in life.”
“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Sincerity? I can fake that.”
“Kissing's no fun when you have herpes”
“No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.”

Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Alvin Moore, Rama P. Coomaraswamy, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (1988). “Selected letters of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, Oxford University Press, USA

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