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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.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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Eastern Tennessee
Civil
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Rights
Church
Invigorated
Renewal
Purity
Innocence

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All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.
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In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.
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When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
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There are some things to die for but none to kill for.
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If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.
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The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.
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The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.
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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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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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God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
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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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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 of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
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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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Rather than finding the devil out there, we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.
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Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.
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