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God 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
- No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.
- If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at…
- 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…
- MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with a…
- 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…
- It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard…
- We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be…
- Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare…
- Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that nowadays. We can…
- When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son…
- What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?
- ...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching…
- One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the…
- This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no…
- If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of these peculiar people.…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi