Quotes from Shane Claiborne

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

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

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

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?

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.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

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

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.

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.

As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn't stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.

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

The best critique of what is wrong is the practice of something better. So let's stop complaining about the church we've experienced and work on becoming the church we dream of.

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

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

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.