Shane Claiborne Quotes

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• 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 often the biggest…
• God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow.…
• I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.
• But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, and a few years…
• The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but…
• So even as we see the horror of death, may we be reminded that in the end, love wins. Mercy triumphs. Life is more powerful…
• The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
• I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.
• Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified for living out…
• Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.
• Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper…
• Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
• Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.
• There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church…
• Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the Christianity I grew…
• People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live,
• How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?
• God doesn't want to change the world without you.
• Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what…
• Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

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