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The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians.
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There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real.
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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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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.
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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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We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.
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I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.
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The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.
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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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Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.
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We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.
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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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The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.
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[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.
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There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.
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Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
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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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There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability.
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As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.
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