People Quotes by Shane Claiborne

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

— Shane Claiborne

The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

— Shane Claiborne

There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real.

— Shane Claiborne

Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.

— Shane Claiborne

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

— Shane Claiborne

The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.

— Shane Claiborne

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.

— Shane Claiborne

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

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

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

— Shane Claiborne

Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.

— Shane Claiborne

We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish…

— Shane Claiborne

The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time…

— Shane Claiborne

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

The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have…

— Shane Claiborne

We see God all the time here. People only hear bad things about our neighborhood. Kensington is known as the badlands. I…

— Shane Claiborne

The Catholic understanding has been that the death penalty has been become, like, outdated because in industrialized countries. We have other ways…

— Shane Claiborne

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with…

— Shane Claiborne

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

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

[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

Governments can do lots of things, but there are a lot of things they cannot do. A government can provide good housing,…

— Shane Claiborne

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

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

There are some  -  called 'death fatigue'  -  people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep…

— Shane Claiborne

If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of…

— Shane Claiborne

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

My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and…

— Shane Claiborne

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I…

— Shane Claiborne

We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable…

— Shane Claiborne

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run,…

— Shane Claiborne

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if…

— Shane Claiborne

Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love…

— Shane Claiborne

We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see…

— Shane Claiborne

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

— Shane Claiborne

As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.

— Shane Claiborne

David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things  -  they were murderers. The Bible would be…

— Shane Claiborne

We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless…

— Shane Claiborne

I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel…

— Shane Claiborne

For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in…

— Shane Claiborne