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
We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination.… — 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
People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live, — 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
“I saw a banner hanging next to city hall in downtown Philadelphia that read, "Kill them all, and let God sort them… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or… — 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
With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do believe that the Church is God's primary instrument for ushering in the Kingdom (God's dream) on earth as it is… — 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
I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the… — 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
As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
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 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
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
In closing, to those who have closed the door on religion - I was recently asked by a non-Christian friend if I… — 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
Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name. — 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