Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Rather than finding the devil out there, we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.
Shane Claiborne
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
Author
Writer
Eastern Tennessee
Finding
Devil
Battle
Revolution
Inside
Within
Rather
Starts
Findings
More quotes by Shane Claiborne
The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
Shane Claiborne
It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.
Shane Claiborne
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
I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
Shane Claiborne
We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable around people who are like us culturally and economically.
Shane Claiborne
It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
Shane Claiborne
It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.
Shane Claiborne
The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.
Shane Claiborne
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
When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.
Shane Claiborne
Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.
Shane Claiborne
Whenever folks say radical Christianity is a phase of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.
Shane Claiborne
A pastor friend of mine said, Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
Shane Claiborne
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.
Shane Claiborne
[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.
Shane Claiborne
The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
Shane Claiborne
The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
Shane Claiborne
We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.
Shane Claiborne
God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.
Shane Claiborne
I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.
Shane Claiborne