Dr. J. Otis Yoder Quotes

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!

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.

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.

True Christianity cuts across all other religions and creates its own culture.

Jesus did not define the kingdom as being in the hearts of the Pharisees or anyone else. The kingdom is an objective reality when the King is present.

Every man's measurement is determined by his responses when he is on his knees before God.

The measure of a man is not so much how tall he stands but how low he kneels.

Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow can never be justified.