Shane Claiborne Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Shane Claiborne:

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.
~Shane Claiborne


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/shane-claiborne-quotes/#60f97dd4

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.
~Shane Claiborne


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/shane-claiborne-quotes/#77bdddbd

Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.
~Shane Claiborne


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/shane-claiborne-quotes/#7a88507d

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/shane-claiborne-quotes/#454adc10

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/shane-claiborne-quotes/#ef3b840e

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.
~Shane Claiborne


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/shane-claiborne-quotes/#2bea5f12

The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.
~Shane Claiborne


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/shane-claiborne-quotes/#ca82121f

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.
~Shane Claiborne


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/shane-claiborne-quotes/#da51f0bd

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/shane-claiborne-quotes/#deca636b

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.
~Shane Claiborne


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/shane-claiborne-quotes/#99b419ed

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