Christians Quotes by Shane Claiborne

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

— 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

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

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

— Shane Claiborne

“We have not shown the world another way of doing life. Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

“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

“Christians can no longer refer to 'our troops' or 'our history' because of their new identity. Fabricated boundaries and walls are removed…

— Shane Claiborne

“We have not shown the world another way of doing life. Christians pretty much live like everybody else; they just sprinkle a…

— 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

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

The death penalty has succeeded in America, not in spite of Christians, but because of us. The Bible Belt is the Death…

— Shane Claiborne