Christianity Quotes by Shane Claiborne

Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.

— Shane Claiborne

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

— Shane Claiborne

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

— Shane Claiborne

Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.

— Shane Claiborne

“Christendom seems unprepared for people who take the gospel that seriously.”

— 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

Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible,…

— Shane Claiborne

As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends,…

— Shane Claiborne

I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say…

— Shane Claiborne

“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

“Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death,…

— Shane Claiborne

Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry…

— Shane Claiborne

“Fourth-century preacher John Chrysostom said, “This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the…

— Shane Claiborne

“It’s not always a bad thing to struggle. In fact, if you want to find the church alive, you look at places…

— Shane Claiborne

“I remain convinced to this day that if we continue to lose young people in the church, it won’t be because we…

— Shane Claiborne

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

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

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

— Shane Claiborne

Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the…

— Shane Claiborne

“Desmond Tutu, a South African bishop and leader in the movement to end apartheid, said, “I don’t preach a social gospel; I…

— Shane Claiborne

“I’m not ready to walk on water, but I’m also not ready to let the televangelists and prosperity preachers hijack the supernatural…

— Shane Claiborne

“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

“‎Now I think ultimately our hope is certainly that people can feel and taste the goodness of God and to find the…

— Shane Claiborne

“Jesus is ready to set us free from the heavy yoke of an oppressive way of life. Plenty of wealthy Christians are…

— Shane Claiborne

“We are not a voice for the voiceless. The truth is that there is a lot of noise out there drowning out…

— Shane Claiborne

People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live,

— Shane Claiborne

Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my…

— Shane Claiborne

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president…

— Shane Claiborne

“There are far too many Christians who believe that theological conformity is a prerequisite for community.”

— Shane Claiborne

“We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals…

— 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

The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads…

— Shane Claiborne

“As French theologian Jacques Ellul once said, “Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.”

— Shane Claiborne

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the…

— Shane Claiborne

There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so…

— Shane Claiborne

The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed…

— Shane Claiborne

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

When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of…

— Shane Claiborne

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