Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“But if you ask the average person how Christians live, they are struck silent.” — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“We have not shown the world another way of doing life. Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“There are far too many Christians who believe that theological conformity is a prerequisite for community.” — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“As French theologian Jacques Ellul once said, “Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.” — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The world is looking, not for Christians who are perfect, but for Christians who are honest and who are willing to be… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Christians are meant to be God’s holy counterculture, showing the world what a society of love can look like. It is about… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“I began to wonder if anyone still believed Jesus meant thos things He said. I thought if we just stopped and asked… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“few years ago, the Barna Group, a prominent research company, went to every state in the US and asked young non-Christians what… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Christians can no longer refer to 'our troops' or 'our history' because of their new identity. Fabricated boundaries and walls are removed… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“We have not shown the world another way of doing life. Christians pretty much live like everybody else; they just sprinkle a… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live, — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The death penalty has succeeded in America, not in spite of Christians, but because of us. The Bible Belt is the Death… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
There are some - called 'death fatigue' - people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
We think of justice sometimes as getting what you deserve, you know - what crime was committed and what is the punishment for that… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
Mother Theresa said it is not how much we give that is important but how much love you put into doing it. So it… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
“If you find yourself climbing the ladder of success, be careful or else on your way up you might pass Jesus on his way… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together.… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
“Clarence Jordan, co-founder of Koinonia Farm, wrote, “The Good News of the resurrection is not that we shall die and go home with him,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share