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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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The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.
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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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It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.
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I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.
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Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.
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We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.
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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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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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I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.
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There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.
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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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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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We've heard from people all around the world, telling us that this is their reality. People need a way to connect the sometimes really hard reality in which they wake up each morning with the movement of the Spirit.
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How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.
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The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
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The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
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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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