Clarence Jordan Quotes

Enjoy the top 13 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Clarence Jordan.

“Behold a tree. Does it not speak to us thusly: Dont 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.”
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“The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love”

— Clarence Jordan

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

— 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 coins, a father waiting for his son.”

— 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.

— Clarence Jordan

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

— 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 way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.”

— 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 away church.”

— Clarence Jordan

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

— Clarence Jordan

“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

“Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are fighting for ideals. We are fighting for oil and tin and rubber and markets, and as long as we insist on a standard of life that is so high above all the rest of the world, we're going to have to pay for our standard of living with a lot of blood. I think we ought to re-examine the fact that Jesus was a pauper, and we should be committing ourselves to a very humble, simple way of life.”