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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
Love
People
Broken
Church
Fall
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Beautiful

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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.
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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 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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The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
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God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
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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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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.
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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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For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.
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I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.
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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.
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The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
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Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.
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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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We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.
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We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world using half the world's resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war.
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It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
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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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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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Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.
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