John Howard Yoder Quotes

• The church seeks to help form people who can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive world, risk being faithful in an age of cynicism, risk being gentle among those who admire the tough, risk love when it may not be returned, because we have the confidence that in Christ we have been reborn into a new reality.

  John Howard Yoder

  Reality, People, Peaceful

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• The church is called to be now what the world is called to be ultimately

  John Howard Yoder

  Church, World

  John Howard Yoder (2009). “The War of the Lamb: The Ethics of Nonviolence and Peacemaking”, p.13, Brazos Press

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• The relationship between the obedience of Gods people and the triumph of Gods cause is not a relationship of cause and effect but one of cross and resurrection.

  John Howard Yoder

  People, Triumph, Causes

  John Howard Yoder (1994). “The Politics of Jesus: Vicit Agnus Noster”, p.232, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.

  John Howard Yoder

  Detours, Kingdoms, Way

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