Quote

Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people.

Shane Claiborne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
Author
Writer
Eastern Tennessee
People
Prayer
Dates
Open
Native
Books
Project
Names
Remembered
Look
Lots
Book
Projects
Looks
Americans
Many
Among
Sourcing

More quotes by Shane Claiborne

Image
That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.
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
When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
Shane Claiborne
Image
I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the ability to have our hearts broken with the things that break the heart of God. That is part of what it means to be a Christian.
Shane Claiborne
Image
Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.
Shane Claiborne
Image
I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
Shane Claiborne
Image
Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.
Shane Claiborne
Image
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.
Shane Claiborne
Image
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
Image
The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
Shane Claiborne
Image
It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!
Shane Claiborne
Image
We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.
Shane Claiborne
Image
I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.
Shane Claiborne
Image
There are some things to die for but none to kill for.
Shane Claiborne
Image
Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning they connected theology with what they were doing. They put a banner on the front of the cathedral that said, How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday.
Shane Claiborne
Image
Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.
Shane Claiborne
Image
It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.
Shane Claiborne
Image
I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.
Shane Claiborne
Image
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.
Shane Claiborne
Image
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.
Shane Claiborne