Shane Claiborne Quotes About Christianity

Quotes about: Christianity

• 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.

  Shane Claiborne

  God, Christian, Stars

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

• 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.

  Shane Claiborne

  Religious, Creating, Our World

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

• The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Fascination, Christianity

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

• 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.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Sorry, Mouths

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

• 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.

  Shane Claiborne

  Powerful, Suffering, Peculiar

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

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

  Shane Claiborne

  Revolution, Kind, Christianity

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

• When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of Assisi who, through their lifestyle, were challenging the patterns of materialism and militarism and it affected the Christianity of their age.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, Challenges, Age

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

• Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.

  Shane Claiborne

  Years, Needs, Phases

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

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