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Christian Quotes by Shane Claiborne
- 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…
- 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…
- Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.
- People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live,
- Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.
- We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all…
- I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths…
- In closing, to those who have closed the door on religion - I was recently asked by a non-Christian friend if I thought he was…
- As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.
- As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love…
- So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first. If you're wondering whether you'll be safe, just look at what…
- I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that…
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- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. — Stephen Baldwin
- The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian… — Hans Urs von Balthasar