332 Quotes by Shane Claiborne

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.

Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified for living out a love that disrupts the social order, that calls forth a new world. People are not crucified for helping poor people. People are crucified for joining them.

Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable around people who are like us culturally and economically.