Shane Claiborne Quotes

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We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

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The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

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I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

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The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

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My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.

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We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.

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Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

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There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

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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 support a president while also worshiping Jesus as the Son of God.' But how is this possible? For one says that we must love our enemies, and the other says we must kill them; one promotes the economics of competition, while the other admonishes the forgiveness of debts. To which do we pledge allegiance?

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But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, and a few years later, Lazarus died again. Jesus healed the sick, but eventually caught some other disease. He fed the ten thousands, and the next day they were hungry again. But we remember his love. It wasn't that Jesus healed a leper but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

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Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

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I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, "When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.

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Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.

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Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

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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 world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.

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When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.

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But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.

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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 elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

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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 of God.

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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?

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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 we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live,

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There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.

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When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

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Rocking the vote may mean going to the booths and writing in our Candidate, because he doesn't seem to be on the ballot.

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We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.

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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 than death. And even those who have committed great violence can have the image of God come to life again within them as they hear the whisper of love. May the whisper of love grow louder than the thunder of violence. May we love loudly.

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Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.

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All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

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Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

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