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Quotes by J. Otis Yoder

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Any man’s measure is determined by what he will do when he is faced with his own deep need. Not how high he may reach but how low he may kneel.
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We have witnessed in the 20th century a tremendous phenomenon: the birth of the modern State of Israel. ...God is at work with His ancient chosen earthly people. We ought to pay attention to what is going on for behind the movement of nations is the hand of God.
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Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow can never be justified.
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From Adam's day until now men everywhere have tried to find their own way to meet God's standard of holiness. Has anyone been successful? No!
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The Creator did not speak man into existence as He did all else which He made, but He began with previously made material. So in the restoration process He did not speak the restoration into reality by fiat. Rather He began the process through a series of connected acts and events. And certainly no act of the Eternal Creator would ever be without purpose or reason.
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The divine order of human society from primeval days was based upon certain rights conveyed by the Creator. The right of position, next to God; the right to procreate, in order to be in charge; the right to procure, in order to survive. These rights of necessity required man to maintain a meaningful and submissive relation to God who bestowed them.
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Any man's measure is determined by what he will do when he is faced with his own deep need. Not how high he may reach but how low he may kneel.
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How much verbal garbage there is going out across the air waves and across the pulpits of our land because preachers do not believe the Gospel; do not believe that Jesus Christ is the only way.
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True Christianity cuts across all other religions and creates its own culture.
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The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.
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