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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.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mean, Hands, Community

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

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• The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving in to the very temptations he resisted--power, relevancy, spectacle.

  Shane Claiborne

  Believe, Giving, Temptation

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.166, 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.

  Shane Claiborne

  Problem, Said, Martyr

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

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• The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

  Shane Claiborne

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, People

  "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.

  Shane Claiborne

  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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• My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.

  Shane Claiborne

  Talking, People, Goal

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

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• 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.

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• Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."

  Shane Claiborne

  Mother, Eye, Calcutta

  Shane Claiborne (2008). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.56, Zondervan

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• Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the poor rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said.

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  Jesus, Crazy, Blessing

  Shane Claiborne (2016). “The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.19, Zondervan

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• Mother Theresa said it is not how much we give that is important but how much love you put into doing it. So it is not just how many units of housing we create or how good our health care system is, it is that people have someone to eat dinner with and that people have someone to hold their hand when they die. That is what we are called to do and it is the love of Christ. It is relationships.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mother, Love You, Hands

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

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

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, Imagination, Political

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.153, Harper Collins

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• I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we don't dare them, not because we don't entertain them. It's because we make the gospel too easy, not because we make it too difficult. Kids want to do something heroic with their lives, which is why they play video games and join the army. But what do they do with a church that teaches them to tiptoe through life so they can arrive safely at death?

  Shane Claiborne

  War, Kids, Army

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.177, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things  -  they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.

  Shane Claiborne

  People, Grace, Would Be

  Source: medium.com

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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.

  Shane Claiborne

  Powerful, Suffering, Peculiar

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

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

  Shane Claiborne

  Dies

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

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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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  Christian, Jesus, Sprinkles

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.72, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We should refuse to get sucked into political camps and insist on pulling the best out of all of them. That's what Jesus did - challenge the worst of each camp and pull out the best of each.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Political, Challenges

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

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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.

  Shane Claiborne

  Country, People, Vision

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.154, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mother, Tears, Systematic

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

  Shane Claiborne

  Crazy, War, Believe

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

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Trouble, Knows

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.177, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mean, People, Vision

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.193, Harper Collins

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

  Shane Claiborne

  World, Firsts, Steps

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.300, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• [Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.

  Shane Claiborne

  People, Water, World

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

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• I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the ability to have our hearts broken with the things that break the heart of God. That is part of what it means to be a Christian.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Mean, Eye

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

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