Shane Claiborne Quotes - Page 7

As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.

In closing, to those who have closed the door on religion - I was recently asked by a non-Christian friend if I thought he was going to hell. I said, 'I hope not. It will be hard to enjoy heaven without you.' If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

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

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.

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.

God doesn't want to change the world without you.

Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice.

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see much poverty or the injustices that live on our doorstep.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

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

There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.

I do believe that the Church is God's primary instrument for ushering in the Kingdom (God's dream) on earth as it is in heaven, but God is not limited to use only the Church, or only Christians for that matter.

Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think it moves us in our gut.

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

A lot of the world looks to the United States, whether we like it or not.

The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.

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

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.

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.

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

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.

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.