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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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If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.
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Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.
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Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.
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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.
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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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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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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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Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people.
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The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.
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It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.
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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.
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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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