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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.

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

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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.

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

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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?

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Clarence Jordan

Clarence Jordan

Born: July 29, 1912
Died: October 29, 1969 (aged 57)
Bio: Clarence Jordan, a farmer and New Testament Greek scholar, was the founder of Koinonia Farm, a small but influential religious community in southwest Georgia and the author of the Cotton Patch paraphrase of the New Testament.
Known for:
  1. The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John (1969)
  2. The Substance of Faith
  3. Essential Writings
  4. Cotton Patch Parables of Liberation

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