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Shane Claiborne Inspirational Quotes (118)

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The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.
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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.
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If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.
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I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.
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The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.
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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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The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time and space and is taking over this earth with the dreams of God.
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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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Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
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It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
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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.
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We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.
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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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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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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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We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.
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I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception and end at birth, and that if I am going to discourage abortion, I had better be ready to adopt some babies and care for some mothers.
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Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.
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We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world using half the world's resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war.
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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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It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.
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If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.
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We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.
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