Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world. Shane Claiborne More Quotes by Shane Claiborne More Quotes From Shane Claiborne We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus. Shane Claiborne settings disappointment jesus For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death. Shane Claiborne cpr practice believe But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, and a few years later, Lazarus died again. Jesus healed the sick, but eventually caught some other disease. He fed the ten thousands, and the next day they were hungry again. But we remember his love. It wasn't that Jesus healed a leper but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers. Shane Claiborne next-day years jesus 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. Shane Claiborne hungry way jesus To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's. Shane Claiborne building church people 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. Shane Claiborne church son jesus Believe in miracles. And live in a way that might necessitate one. Shane Claiborne miracle might believe If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need. Shane Claiborne coats two needs We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be born again to enter the Kingdom of God, I can tell you that you have to sell everything you have and give it to the poor, because Jesus said that to one guy, too. But I guess that's why God invented highlighers, so we can highlight the parts we like and ignore the rest. Shane Claiborne guy giving jesus Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the poor rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said. Shane Claiborne crazy blessing jesus [Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger. Shane Claiborne water people world Mother Theresa said it is not how much we give that is important but how much love you put into doing it. So it is not just how many units of housing we create or how good our health care system is, it is that people have someone to eat dinner with and that people have someone to hold their hand when they die. That is what we are called to do and it is the love of Christ. It is relationships. Shane Claiborne mother love-you hands It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more resources to victims families. We can do all sorts of creative ways of healing the pain that people have done by channeling the energy and resources to other more redemptive forms of justice. Shane Claiborne pain healing people Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they want to write us off as superhuman and create a safe distance. One of my favorite quotes, written on my wall here in bold black marker, is from Dorothy Day: "Don't call us saints; we don't want to be dismissed that easily Shane Claiborne wall distance writing Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'. Shane Claiborne land prayer jesus This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire. Shane Claiborne kings practice jesus We should refuse to get sucked into political camps and insist on pulling the best out of all of them. That's what Jesus did - challenge the worst of each camp and pull out the best of each. Shane Claiborne political challenges jesus It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it. Shane Claiborne slavery hard Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior. Shane Claiborne mentor senior years MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with a hunger for justice. LUST begins with a recognition of beauty. GLUTTONY begins when our enjoyment of the delectable gifts of GOD starts to consume us. IDOLATRY begins when our seeing a reflection of God in something beautiful leads to our thinking that the beautiful image bearer is worthy of WORSHIP. Shane Claiborne blessing beautiful thinking
