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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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I do believe that the Church is God's primary instrument for ushering in the Kingdom (God's dream) on earth as it is in heaven, but God is not limited to use only the Church, or only Christians for that matter.
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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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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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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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There are some things to die for but none to kill for.
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Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think it moves us in our gut.
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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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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.
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The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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A pastor friend of mine said, Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
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What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?
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Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.
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One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.
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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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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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Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning they connected theology with what they were doing. They put a banner on the front of the cathedral that said, How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday.
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It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!
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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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There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so heavenly minded that it is no earthly good.
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There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.
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