“ 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
“ While most activists could use a good dose of gentleness, I think most believers could use a good dose of holy anger. 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
“ Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers. 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
“ If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision. It also means that you have a responsibility to lead us in ne… Shane Claiborne
“ Every time our government chooses to use military force to bring about change in the world, it once again teaches our children the myth of redemptive violence, the myth that violence can be an instrum… Shane Claiborne
“ We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving. Shane Claiborne
