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The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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Eastern Tennessee
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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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I do believe that the Church is God's primary instrument for ushering in the Kingdom (God's dream) on earth as it is in heaven, but God is not limited to use only the Church, or only Christians for that matter.
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The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
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When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.
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God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
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[People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not talking about fluffy stuff. We're talking about real life for people around the world. Our prayers should be said like the daily breath that gives us life.
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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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I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.
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We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together. We're all trying to live in the light of the history that shines through the biblical narrative.
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I say let's be idealists. Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see (Hebrews 11:1).
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What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?
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God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.
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The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.
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I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.
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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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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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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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When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
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Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think it moves us in our gut.
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There are some things to die for but none to kill for.
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