The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate. — 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
I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project… — 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
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
We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Governments can do lots of things, but there are a lot of things they cannot do. A government can provide good housing,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
[People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
A lot of times people say whatever the government touches, they don't do that well, so why would we trust them with… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
There's an understanding of common prayer that I think we're seeing grow, more and more. When I travel, I hear from people… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The Catholic understanding has been that the death penalty has been become, like, outdated because in industrialized countries. We have other ways… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through… — 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
Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being… — 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… — 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
Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and… — 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.… — 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
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
Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We're remembering both the good and the bad in our history together in this world. This isn't an attempt to make people… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more. — 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