"The history of the church has been largely……" — Shane Claiborne
"The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving in to the very temptations he resisted--power, relevancy, spectacle."
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86 Quotes by Shane Claiborne
Shane Claiborne has 86 quotes on this site.
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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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