Dr. J. Otis Yoder Quotes

When we begin to think like everybody else thinks, that is dangerous. Individualism is part of our divine endowment. God made us as individuals and we are responsible before Him.

~ Dr. J. Otis Yoder

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.

~ Dr. J. Otis Yoder

Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow can never be justified.

~ Dr. J. Otis Yoder

The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.

~ Dr. J. Otis Yoder

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

~ Dr. J. Otis Yoder

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

~ Dr. J. Otis Yoder

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.

~ Dr. J. Otis Yoder

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

~ Dr. J. Otis Yoder

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.

~ Dr. J. Otis Yoder

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.

~ Dr. J. Otis Yoder

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.

~ Dr. J. Otis Yoder

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!

~ Dr. J. Otis Yoder