Shane Claiborne Short Quotes

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

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No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

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

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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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We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.

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

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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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The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

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