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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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We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.
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All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.
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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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As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn't stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.
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The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.
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I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
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I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.
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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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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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The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.
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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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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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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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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.
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The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
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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 dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
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I moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went to study sociology. I like how Karl Barth said we have to read the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other so that our faith doesn't just become a ticket into heaven and a license to ignore the world around us.
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