Quote

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

Shane Claiborne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
Author
Writer
Eastern Tennessee
Stink
Drown
Church
Like
Stinks
Ark
Noah

More quotes by Shane Claiborne

Image
David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things  -  they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.
Shane Claiborne
Image
Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
Shane Claiborne
Image
God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
Shane Claiborne
Image
We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
Shane Claiborne
Image
The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
Shane Claiborne
Image
I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
Shane Claiborne
Image
Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.
Shane Claiborne
Image
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.
Shane Claiborne
Image
When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
Shane Claiborne
Image
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.
Shane Claiborne
Image
As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.
Shane Claiborne
Image
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.
Shane Claiborne
Image
There are some things to die for but none to kill for.
Shane Claiborne
Image
We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.
Shane Claiborne
Image
My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.
Shane Claiborne
Image
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.
Shane Claiborne
Image
When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.
Shane Claiborne
Image
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.
Shane Claiborne
Image
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.
Shane Claiborne
Image
Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
Shane Claiborne