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
That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community [even if their intentions are ever so earnest], but the person… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“We are not a voice for the voiceless. The truth is that there is a lot of noise out there drowning out… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When we were starting our community a bunch of older Benedictine nuns said to us, "If you have any questions or want… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major… — 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
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