Shane Claiborne - The Irresistible Revolution (2006)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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