Shane Claiborne Quotes - Page 5

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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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  Christian, Jesus, Hate

  Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.241, Harper Collins

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

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  Bless, Make Sense, Asks

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.171, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more resources to victims families. We can do all sorts of creative ways of healing the pain that people have done by channeling the energy and resources to other more redemptive forms of justice.

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  Pain, Healing, People

  Source: medium.com

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• I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.

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  Christian, Believe, Tragedy

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• It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.

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  Slavery, Hard

  Source: medium.com

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• Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior.

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  Senior, Years, Mentor

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

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• Karl Barth said it well: "We have to read the Bible in one hand... and the newspaper in the other." Our faith should not cause us to escape this world but to engage it.

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  Hands, World, Causes

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

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• When we were starting our community a bunch of older Benedictine nuns said to us, "If you have any questions or want to pick our brains, please do - we've been doing community for about 1,500 years together so we've learned a few things."

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  Years, Community, Brain

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

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• Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.

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  Christian, Jesus, Names

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne on Common Prayer". www.readthespirit.com. 2012.

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• Jesus still has a really great reputation and the Spirit is still moving. I've got a lot of hope for a generation that takes Jesus seriously, once again.

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  Jesus, Moving, Generations

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne on Common Prayer". www.readthespirit.com. 2012.

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• I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.

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  Thinking, Giving, Justice

  Source: medium.com

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• MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with a hunger for justice. LUST begins with a recognition of beauty. GLUTTONY begins when our enjoyment of the delectable gifts of GOD starts to consume us. IDOLATRY begins when our seeing a reflection of God in something beautiful leads to our thinking that the beautiful image bearer is worthy of WORSHIP.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Blessing

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• Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.

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• I would love to see the Church on the right side of history.

  Shane Claiborne

  Church, Sides

  Source: medium.com

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• Jesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family, "unless you hate your own family you are not going to be a disciple." He is challenging the limits of our compassion and our love as if someone's kid suffers it should be as devastating to us as if it were our own kid. That is what the early church said.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Hate, Kids

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

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• When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were 75% of the executions. Now, African-Americans are 13% of the population, but they're still almost half of death row, and over a third of the executions. 34% of the executions are black folks. So, like, I mean, things like the race of the victim is one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed.

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  Mean, Race, Lynching

  Source: medium.com

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• There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.

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  Christian, Home, Differences

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

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• We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

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  Christian, Jesus, Blessing

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.183, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).

  Shane Claiborne

  Hebrew, Certain, Idealist

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

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

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  Jesus, World, Believer

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Because you can poke someone's eye out legally doesn't mean you should and that it's right. The Bible teaches us a more perfect justice.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mean, Eye, Perfect

  Source: medium.com

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• When one in three Black men are in prison, those larger systemic injustices become a part of what it means to love our neighbor as ourself. We care about dismantling institutional racism. That begins in relationships when you see injustice happen.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mean, Men, Racism

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

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• We think of justice sometimes as getting what you deserve, you know  -  what crime was committed and what is the punishment for that crime. That's how a lot of the criminal justice works. But God's justice is restorative, so it's not as interested in those same questions of "What did they do wrong?" and "What is the punishment for that?" It's more about what harm was done and how do we heal that harm, and that's a much more redemptive version. So, it definitely doesn't turn a blind eye to harm, but it does say we want to heal the wounds of that.

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  Eye, Thinking, Deserve You

  Source: medium.com

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• I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?

  Shane Claiborne

  Spiritual, Religious, Jesus

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

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• This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country; Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, those are the top 4, and number 5 is the US. And those are not countries that are known as champions for human rights, you know.

  Shane Claiborne

  Country, Rights, Iran

  Source: medium.com

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