Quotes from Shane Claiborne

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.

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.

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 killing for.

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.

The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

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.

The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.

No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.