Shane Claiborne

I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.

— Shane Claiborne

The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.

— Shane Claiborne

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

— Shane Claiborne

A lot of the world looks to the United States, whether we like it or not.

— Shane Claiborne

“we can live without sex, but we cant live without love.”

— Shane Claiborne

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

— Shane Claiborne

Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.

— Shane Claiborne

Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.

— Shane Claiborne

“I have come to believe that when we live in a way that requires miracles, we will start to see them.”

— Shane Claiborne

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the…

— Shane Claiborne

In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks…

— Shane Claiborne

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

— Shane Claiborne

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

— Shane Claiborne

“At that moment, we decided to stop complaining about the church we saw, and we set our hearts on becoming the church…

— Shane Claiborne

It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of…

— Shane Claiborne

The world is looking, not for Christians who are perfect, but for Christians who are honest and who are willing to be…

— Shane Claiborne

Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only…

— Shane Claiborne

I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the…

— Shane Claiborne

A lot of times people say whatever the government touches, they don't do that well, so why would we trust them with…

— Shane Claiborne

There's an understanding of common prayer that I think we're seeing grow, more and more. When I travel, I hear from people…

— Shane Claiborne

“True fasting is not just depriving ourselves of privilege but als osharing sacrificially tob ring an end to the cycles of inequality,…

— Shane Claiborne

There are folks who burn the Koran and hold signs saying, "God hates fags" and all sorts of sick things - and…

— Shane Claiborne

I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin…

— Shane Claiborne

“I began to wonder if anyone still believed Jesus meant thos things He said. I thought if we just stopped and asked…

— Shane Claiborne

“In our culture of “seeker sensitivity” and radical inclusivity, the great temptation is to compromise the cost of discipleship in order to…

— Shane Claiborne

There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say…

— Shane Claiborne

I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we…

— Shane Claiborne

“And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and solidarity with the poor and oppressed,…

— Shane Claiborne

So even as we see the horror of death, may we be reminded that in the end, love wins. Mercy triumphs. Life…

— Shane Claiborne

When you look at the Bible, and I read the Bible very seriously, for a lot of my life, I believed the…

— Shane Claiborne

“I saw a banner hanging next to city hall in downtown Philadelphia that read, "Kill them all, and let God sort them…

— Shane Claiborne

But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, and…

— Shane Claiborne

It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone has something to offer the movement of justice

— Shane Claiborne

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

— Shane Claiborne

We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.

— Shane Claiborne

“can sing my wife a song, but she really knows I love her when I do the dishes.”

— Shane Claiborne

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

— Shane Claiborne

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

— Shane Claiborne

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

— Shane Claiborne

“Frederick Buechner said, “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”

— Shane Claiborne