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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. — Shane Claiborne

People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live, — Shane Claiborne

There are some things to die for but none to kill for. — Shane Claiborne

Mother Theresa always said, Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta. — Shane Claiborne

One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope. — Shane Claiborne

It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love. — Shane Claiborne

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. — Shane Claiborne

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday? — Shane Claiborne

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

As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more. — Shane Claiborne

Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants. — Shane Claiborne

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit. — Shane Claiborne

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy. — Shane Claiborne

The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others. — Shane Claiborne

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together. — Shane Claiborne

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

We often miss the irony that the same Paul who writes "submit to the authorities" goes to jail and is condemned for subverting the authorities! He — Shane Claiborne

One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace. — Shane Claiborne

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving. — Shane Claiborne

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing. — Shane Claiborne

We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism. — Shane Claiborne

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary. — Shane Claiborne

In an age of million-dollar mansions for God, it's hard to imagine that our God prefers tents. — Shane Claiborne

We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that. — Shane Claiborne

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches. — Shane Claiborne

We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus. — Shane Claiborne

No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us. — Shane Claiborne

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

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

Looking into the eyes of people who love us may be the clearest glimpse of God many of us get in this world. — Shane Claiborne

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner. — Shane Claiborne

While most activists could use a good dose of gentleness, I think most believers could use a good dose of holy anger. — Shane Claiborne

Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more. — Shane Claiborne

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

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution. — Shane Claiborne

God doesn't want to change the world without you. — Shane Claiborne

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love. — Shane Claiborne

When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way. — Shane Claiborne

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination. — Shane Claiborne

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

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business. — Shane Claiborne

So live real good, and get beat up real bad. Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more. That's how this thing seems to work. — Shane Claiborne

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

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

Believe in miracles. And live in a way that might necessitate one. — Shane Claiborne

Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world. — Shane Claiborne

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement. — Shane Claiborne

This grace does not undo a tragedy or pardon a wrong, but it becomes the first step toward a more hopeful future. — Shane Claiborne

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. — Shane Claiborne

The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people. — Shane Claiborne

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist. — Shane Claiborne

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. — Shane Claiborne

The church was an international institution long before globalization. — Shane Claiborne

Much of the Bible was written by murderers who were given a second chance. Moses. David. Paul. The Bible would be much shorter without grace. — Shane Claiborne

If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work. — Shane Claiborne

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate. — Shane Claiborne

Perhaps the most dangerous place for a Christian to be is in safety and comfort. — Shane Claiborne

Grace gets the last word. — Shane Claiborne

Only God is awesome. — Shane Claiborne

We can live without sex, but we cant live without love. — Shane Claiborne

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

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

In fact, the Gospel shows us change comes from the bottom rather than the top, from an old rugged cross rather than a gold royal throne. — Shane Claiborne

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

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown. — Shane Claiborne

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

We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb. — Shane Claiborne

The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. — Shane Claiborne

But Jesus answered me with these words and said: Sin is necessary, but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well. — Shane Claiborne

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged. — Shane Claiborne

Victimization is about powerlessness, and justice is about amplifying the voices of those who have been silenced. Healing — Shane Claiborne

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo. — Shane Claiborne

There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own. — Shane Claiborne

When I fed the hungry, they called me a saint. When I asked why people are hungry, they called me a communist. Charity — Shane Claiborne

Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples. — Shane Claiborne

Second-century Christian thinker Athenagoras wrote, Our life does not consist in making up beautiful phrases but in performing beautiful deeds. — Shane Claiborne

It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested! — Shane Claiborne

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work. — Shane Claiborne

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

Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. — Shane Claiborne

Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'. — Shane Claiborne

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen. — Shane Claiborne

Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us. — Shane Claiborne

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society. — Shane Claiborne

To be nonpartisan doesn't mean we're nonpolitical. — Shane Claiborne

If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need. — Shane Claiborne

We must take a plunge into the darkness before we can fully appreciate the light. — Shane Claiborne

[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love. — Shane Claiborne

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom. — Shane Claiborne

I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others. — Shane Claiborne

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less. — Shane Claiborne

Christendom seems unprepared for people who take the gospel that seriously. — Shane Claiborne

Patting mother Theresa on the back, someone said to her: 'i wouldn't do what you do for a million dollars.' She said with a grin: 'me neither. — Shane Claiborne

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour. — Shane Claiborne

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

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays. — Shane Claiborne

It may very well be that there's a villain and a hero inside each of us, and each day we have a choice of who we want to be. — Shane Claiborne

Jeanne de Chantal, seventeenth-century founder of the Order of the Visitation, said, No matter what happens, be gentle with yourself. — Shane Claiborne

As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did. — Shane Claiborne

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