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All Quotes by author - Shane Claiborne

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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