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Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
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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.
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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.
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Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
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The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
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All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.
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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.
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The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.
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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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We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable around people who are like us culturally and economically.
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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.
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The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.
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God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
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To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.
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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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When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.
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When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
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I moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went to study sociology. I like how Karl Barth said we have to read the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other so that our faith doesn't just become a ticket into heaven and a license to ignore the world around us.
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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.
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