Shane Claiborne

“But if you ask the average person how Christians live, they are struck silent.”

— Shane Claiborne

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.

— Shane Claiborne

God doesn't want to change the world without you.

— Shane Claiborne

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

— Shane Claiborne

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

— Shane Claiborne

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

— Shane Claiborne

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

— Shane Claiborne

It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!

— Shane Claiborne

Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

— Shane Claiborne

[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.

— Shane Claiborne

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus…

— Shane Claiborne

“God’s people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will…

— Shane Claiborne

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

— Shane Claiborne

I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.

— Shane Claiborne

There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share.…

— Shane Claiborne

“If I believed terrorists were beyond redemption, I would need to rip out half of my New Testament Scriptures, for they were…

— Shane Claiborne

[People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not…

— Shane Claiborne

“Lord, as the seasons turn, creation teaches us of grief, patience, and renewal. Make us good students of these rhythms that we…

— Shane Claiborne

So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first. If you're wondering whether you'll be safe, just…

— Shane Claiborne

“Caesar’s image is branded on lifeless metal, while God’s image is placed on life itself. We are God’s coins, divine image-bearers. Caesar’s…

— Shane Claiborne

The best critique of what is wrong is the practice of something better. So let's stop complaining about the church we've experienced…

— Shane Claiborne

“Lord, you have appointed some to be prophets; give us ears to hear and mouths to speak. You have appointed some to…

— Shane Claiborne

We can also cling to the treasures of our faith and get rid of the things that are cluttering that. It is…

— Shane Claiborne

“Augustine of Hippo said, “Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look…

— Shane Claiborne

“Repentance, rebirth, and conversion were exchanged for cheap grace, and the integrity of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus…

— Shane Claiborne

“Sometimes folks ask this question about giving to beggars and panhandlers with suspicion, speculating that homeless folks will just use their money…

— Shane Claiborne

“That stuff Jesus warned us to beware of, the yeast of the Pharisees, is so infectious today in the camps of both…

— Shane Claiborne

“We vote every day for companies, for people, and we put money toward 'campaigns.' We need to think of the faces behind…

— Shane Claiborne

“Death of Someone Killed in the Neighborhood Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world. Amen. Have mercy on…

— Shane Claiborne

“Bishop N. T. Wright of Durham has written, “The whole point of what Jesus was up to was that he was doing…

— Shane Claiborne

I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never…

— Shane Claiborne

We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I…

— Shane Claiborne

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

— Shane Claiborne

Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.

— Shane Claiborne

No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.

— Shane Claiborne

The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.

— Shane Claiborne

I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.

— Shane Claiborne

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

— Shane Claiborne

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.

— Shane Claiborne

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

— Shane Claiborne