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Us Quotes by Shane Claiborne
- Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.
- 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…
- Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.
- 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…
- 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…
- Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
- 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…
- Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they…
- 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…
- Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what…
- ...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…
- Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong