Shane Claiborne Quotes

For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice...

It’s hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

What if evangelical mega churches became known around the world for things like providing water acce...

There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is ...

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his...

Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but tha...

Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to t...

We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within m...

People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: ‘i am not too concerned with what...

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and p...

While most activists could use a good dose of gentleness, I think most believers could use a good do...

the church was an international institution long before globalization.

We are not a voice for the voiceless. The truth is that there is a lot of noise out there drowning o...

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that f...

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths e...

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, ...

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about...

Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should beco...

I saw a banner hanging next to city hall in downtown Philadelphia that read, "Kill them all, and let...

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

Only God is awesome.

We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had...

‎Now I think ultimately our hope is certainly that people can feel and taste the goodness of God and...

One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword ...

...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers s...

Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicia...

This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting ea...

If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to...

As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely...

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandal...

If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that;...

And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and sol...

Every time our government chooses to use military force to bring about change in the world, it once ...

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courag...

When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit ...