Shane Claiborne Quotes

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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.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Suffering Of Others, Safety

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.292, Harper Collins

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

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  Words Of Wisdom, Needs, Good Things

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.

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  Hands, Feet, World

  Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.65, Harper Collins

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• Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the Christianity I grew up with. Christianity can also be built around joining with the broken sinners and evildoers of our world crying out to God, groaning for grace. That’s the Christianity I have fallen in love with.

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  Religious, Creating, Our World

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.196, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  God, Christian, Stars

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.197, Harper Collins

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

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  Monday, Sunday, Men

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  Community, Restoration, Politician

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.184, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

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  Moving, Giving, Mountain

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.

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  Christian, Sorry, Mouths

  "What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff?" by Shane Claiborne, www.esquire.com. November 18, 2009.

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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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  Running, Children, People

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.176, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  Powerful, Winning, May

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.205, Harper Collins

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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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  Winning, Order, Awards

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.86, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

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  Thinking, Issues, Our World

  "The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical". Book by Shane Claiborne, February 1, 2006.

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• It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

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  Beautiful, Dream, Struggle

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

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  Jesus, People, What If

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• There's something beautiful about that Scripture that says, "Your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams" (Acts 2:17). We need each other. There is power when the old and young dream together.

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  Beautiful, Dream, Men

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say one church is better than fifty. I have tried to remove the plural form churches from my vocabulary, training myself to think of the church as Christ did, and as the early Christians did. The metaphors for her are always singular - a body, a bride. I heard one gospel preacher say it like this, as he really wound up and broke a sweat: "We've got to unite ourselves as one body. Because Jesus is coming back, and he's coming back for a bride not a harem.

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  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

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  Comfort, Disturbed, Comfortable

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  Wall, People, Giving

  Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.123, Harper Collins

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• A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

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  Problem, Said, Martyr

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.21, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

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  Dies

  "The Irresistible Revolution". Book by Shane Claiborne, 2006.

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• We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you hold them with open hands. The mark of the early church was that they began sharing and it said there were no needy persons among them. They ended poverty as they created this new loving community.

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  Mean, Hands, Community

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

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  Prayer, Want, Convincing

  Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2009). “Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals”, p.11, InterVarsity Press

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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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  Powerful, Suffering, Peculiar

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.165, Harper Collins

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• If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.

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  Rip, Believe, Past

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