Religion Quotes by Shane Claiborne

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

— Shane Claiborne

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

— Shane Claiborne

“the church was an international institution long before globalization.”

— Shane Claiborne

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

— Shane Claiborne

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

— Shane Claiborne

It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of…

— Shane Claiborne

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

— Shane Claiborne

Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.

— 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

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

— Shane Claiborne

When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a…

— Shane Claiborne

“Interestingly, Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples. You can worship Jesus without doing…

— Shane Claiborne

“We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than…

— 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

We can also cling to the treasures of our faith and get rid of the things that are cluttering that. It is…

— Shane Claiborne

I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the…

— Shane Claiborne

“So often we think it is our job to push people, and it really is a lack of faith that the Spirit…

— Shane Claiborne

The future of the church is also about looking back and looking at where we see these wonderful renewals and what we…

— Shane Claiborne

In closing, to those who have closed the door on religion - I was recently asked by a non-Christian friend if I…

— Shane Claiborne

“Clarence Jordan, co-founder of Koinonia Farm, wrote, “The Good News of the resurrection is not that we shall die and go home…

— Shane Claiborne

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

“What if evangelical mega churches became known around the world for things like providing water access for entire countries or fighting to…

— 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

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

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 always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never…

— 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

“We’ve got to unite ourselves as one body. Because Jesus is coming back and he’s coming back for a bride, not a…

— Shane Claiborne

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

— Shane Claiborne

Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.

— 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

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

— Shane Claiborne

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

— Shane Claiborne

“Church father Ignatius said that if our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, and the hungry, then…

— Shane Claiborne

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus…

— Shane Claiborne

I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than…

— Shane Claiborne

There are financial bankruptcies in many parts of the church. No question about that. But we see the possibility of reimagining and…

— 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

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

— 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