332 Quotes by Shane Claiborne

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live,

[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.

I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never our goal to frustrate, but it is worth noting that the people who were constantly agitated were the self-righteous, religious elite, the rich, and the powerful. But the people who were fascinated by him, by his love and grace, were folks who were already wounded and ostracized — folks who didn't have much to lose, who already knew full well that they were broken and needed a Savior.

Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.

The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world using half the world's resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war.