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When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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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 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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That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.
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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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Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.
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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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Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.
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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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I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel like we can do far better justice - it's more expensive to do the death penalty than the alternatives - there's so many reasons that people come to the conclusion to abolish the death penalty.
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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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We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
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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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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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