Quotes from Shane Claiborne
If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.
- Shane Claiborne
With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.
- 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
It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.
- Shane Claiborne
Only God is awesome.
- Shane Claiborne
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
- Shane Claiborne
There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.
- Shane Claiborne
We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
- Shane Claiborne
This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.
- Shane Claiborne
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).
- Shane Claiborne
The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.
- Shane Claiborne
We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.
- Shane Claiborne