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Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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Eastern Tennessee
Merely
Returning
Stolen
Charity

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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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For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.
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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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Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
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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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The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time and space and is taking over this earth with the dreams of God.
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There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.
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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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When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not because they've thrown out their faith, but it's because of their faith they can't reconcile the death penalty with Jesus and their commitment to Jesus.
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We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable around people who are like us culturally and economically.
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God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
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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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It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.
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This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, those are the top 4, and number 5 is the US. And those are not countries that are known as champions for human rights, you know.
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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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God doesn't want to change the world without you.
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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 more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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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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As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.
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