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We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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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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The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time and space and is taking over this earth with the dreams of God.
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Jesus still has a really great reputation and the Spirit is still moving. I've got a lot of hope for a generation that takes Jesus seriously, once again.
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When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.
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When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not because they've thrown out their faith, but it's because of their faith they can't reconcile the death penalty with Jesus and their commitment to Jesus.
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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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Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.
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There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.
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I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.
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I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel like we can do far better justice - it's more expensive to do the death penalty than the alternatives - there's so many reasons that people come to the conclusion to abolish the death penalty.
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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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Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.
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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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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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