15 Quotes by 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 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.

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.