Quote

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

Shane Claiborne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
Author
Writer
Eastern Tennessee
Becomes
Question
Less
Covet
Accumulate

More quotes by Shane Claiborne

Image
Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.
Shane Claiborne
Image
It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.
Shane Claiborne
Image
It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.
Shane Claiborne
Image
There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real.
Shane Claiborne
Image
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.
Shane Claiborne
Image
The future of the church is also about looking back and looking at where we see these wonderful renewals and what we can learn from the early church. I think it is a really exciting time where Phyllis Tickle said every few hundred years the church needs a rummage sale where we can get rid of some of the clutter.
Shane Claiborne
Image
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.
Shane Claiborne
Image
Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
Shane Claiborne
Image
We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
Shane Claiborne
Image
People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.
Shane Claiborne
Image
The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too.
Shane Claiborne
Image
In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.
Shane Claiborne
Image
God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.
Shane Claiborne
Image
Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
Shane Claiborne
Image
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
Image
A pastor friend of mine said, Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
Shane Claiborne
Image
Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
Shane Claiborne
Image
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.
Shane Claiborne
Image
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
Image
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