Top 4 Quotes by John Howard Yoder

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,

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

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

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