Shane Claiborne Quotes

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How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

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We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.

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The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.

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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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This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs— no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire.

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I guess God can use the mafia, but I would like God to use the church.

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Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

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Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.

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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 for living out a love that disrupts the social order, that calls forth a new world. People are not crucified for helping poor people. People are crucified for joining them.

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I remember hearing about an old comic strip back in the days of St. Ed's. Two guys are talking to each other, and one of them says he has a question for God. He wants to ask why God allows all of this poverty and war and suffering to exist in the world. And his friend says, "Well, why don't you ask?" The fellow shakes his head and says he's scared. When his friend asks why, he mutters, "I'm scared God will ask me the same question."

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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 they did to Jesus and those who followed him. There are safer ways to live than by being a Christian.

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Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.

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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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It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

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Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.

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The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

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