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Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.

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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This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, those are the top 4, and number 5 is the US. And those are not countries that are known as champions for human rights, you know.
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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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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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Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
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The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
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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.
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Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.
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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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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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Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
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Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.
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