332 Quotes by Shane Claiborne

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

Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.

There's an understanding of common prayer that I think we're seeing grow, more and more. When I travel, I hear from people who are deeply touched that our common prayer takes time to remember some of the terrible tragedies that have happened around the world.

Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.

We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together. We're all trying to live in the light of the history that shines through the biblical narrative.

We're remembering both the good and the bad in our history together in this world. This isn't an attempt to make people feel bad every morning and to force them to go stick their fingers in a wall socket. We chose these things we included as a way to point people toward the possibility of transformation even while remembering the great pain we have experienced as humanity.

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.