Quotes from Shane Claiborne

So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first. If you're wondering whether you'll be safe, just look at what they did to Jesus and those who followed him. There are safer ways to live than by being a Christian.

How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.

I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, "When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.

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

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

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.

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.

I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.

The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.

No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.

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

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

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.

My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

I would love to see the Church on the right side of history.

[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.