332 Quotes by Shane Claiborne

Governments can do lots of things, but there are a lot of things they cannot do. A government can provide good housing, but folks can have a house without having a home. We can keep people breathing with good health care, but they still may not really be alive.

When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.

There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.

It is the church's job, as Dr.[Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.

If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.

We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.

I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception and end at birth, and that if I am going to discourage abortion, I had better be ready to adopt some babies and care for some mothers.

As brother Cornel West says, "Justice is what love looks like in public." Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.