"We are faithful not to the triumphant golden……" — Shane Claiborne
"We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb."
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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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More Eagle Quotes
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one of 220 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
— Neil Armstrong
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The Eagle has landed.
— Neil Armstrong
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Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
— Ken Blanchard
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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
— William J. Clinton
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A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell…
— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands…
— John Keats
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Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor…
— Dizzy Gillespie
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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
— Mark Twain
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