“ Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived. Shane Claiborne
“ We are not a voice for the voiceless. The truth is that there is a lot of noise out there drowning out quiet voices, and many people have stopped listening to the cries of their neighbors. Lots of fol… Shane Claiborne
“ We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing… Shane Claiborne
“ ...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killi… Shane Claiborne
“ The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do. Shane Claiborne
“ W. E. B. DuBois, a co-founder of the NAACP, wrote, Only by a union of intelligence and sympathy across the color-line in this critical period of the Republic shall justice and right triumph. Shane Claiborne
“ Peace is not just about the absence of conflict; it’s also about the presence of justice. Martin Luther King Jr. even distinguished between the devil’s peace and God’s true peace. A counterfeit peace… Shane Claiborne
“ A friend and I prepared a video clip once for a worship service. Our goal was to capture people’s responses to the word Christian, so we took a video camera and hit the streets, from the trendy arts d… Shane Claiborne
“ God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barn… Shane Claiborne
“ 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. Shane Claiborne
“ We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet. Shane Claiborne
“ But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, and a few years later, Lazarus died again. Jesus healed the sick, but… Shane Claiborne
“ As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did. Shane Claiborne
“ Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of… Shane Claiborne
“ If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of these peculiar people. Then we can look into the eyes of a centurion and see… Shane Claiborne
“ This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology an… Shane Claiborne
