Quotes from Shane Claiborne

Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."

One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.

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

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.

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

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

In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.

To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians.

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.

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

Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.

Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.

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.

With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.

God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

Only God is awesome.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.

There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.

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

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.

One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).