"I always tell our community that we should……" — 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 our goal to frustrate, but it is worth noting that the people who were constantly agitated were the self-righteous, religious elite, the rich, and the powerful. But the people who were fascinated by him, by his love and grace, were folks who were already wounded and ostracized — folks who didn't have much to lose, who already knew full well that they were broken and needed a Savior."
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86 Quotes by Shane Claiborne
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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…
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God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that…
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I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he…
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But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the…
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The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an…
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So even as we see the horror of death, may we be reminded that in the end, love wins. Mercy…
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The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
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I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.
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Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified…
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Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.
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Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I…
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Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
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