Clarence Jordan Quotes

#1. Clarence Jordan, co-founder of Koinonia Farm, wrote, The Good News of the resurrection is not that we shall die and go home with him, but that he is risen and comes home with us, bringing all his hungry, naked, thirsty, sick, prisoner brothers with him.

Shane Claiborne

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

Clarence Jordan

#3. Even of his sins the Enemy does not want him to think too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better the Enemy is pleased.

C.S. Lewis

#4. Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.

Clarence Jordan

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

Clarence Jordan

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

Clarence Jordan

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. How far would you run with a piece of lead in your heart?

Raymond Carver

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong for the show.

Michael Loceff

#14. 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

#15. Because I love you," I said. "Because you are in my life like the music at the edge of silence.

Robert B. Parker

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

Clarence Jordan

#17. My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.

Simon Hoggart