In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things - they were murderers. The Bible would be… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Karl Barth said it well: "We have to read the Bible in one hand... and the newspaper in the other." Our faith… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Some folks may be really bummed to find that "God bless America" does not appear in the Bible. So often we do… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When you look at the Bible, and I read the Bible very seriously, for a lot of my life, I believed the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“So often we think it is our job to push people, and it really is a lack of faith that the Spirit… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“If I believed terrorists were beyond redemption, I would need to rip out half of my New Testament Scriptures, for they were… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Because you can poke someone's eye out legally doesn't mean you should and that it's right. The Bible teaches us a more… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I believe you know Jesus said "a doctor doesn't come to the healthy, but the sick, and it's not the righteous but… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“It’s not the parts of the Bible I don’t understand that scare me, but the parts I do understand.” — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“There is a beautiful moment in the bible when the prophet Elijah feels God’s resence. The Scriptures say that a great and… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
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 Image
