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I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than those of us who have read it so much that it has become stale.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
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Because you can poke someone's eye out legally doesn't mean you should and that it's right. The Bible teaches us a more perfect justice.
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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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We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
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Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
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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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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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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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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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Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
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I believe you know Jesus said a doctor doesn't come to the healthy, but the sick, and it's not the righteous but the sinners that I've come for, so I think that that's the scandal of God's love and grace that no one is beyond redemption, and we can see that all through scripture, you know.
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The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
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