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Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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Eastern Tennessee
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Rather than finding the devil out there, we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.
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God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.
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