332 Quotes by Shane Claiborne

We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

Karl Barth said it well: "We have to read the Bible in one hand... and the newspaper in the other." Our faith should not cause us to escape this world but to engage it.

Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.

Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.