Quotes from Shane Claiborne

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.

Mother Teresa offers us that brilliant glimpse of hope that lies in little things: "We can do not great things, only small things with great love. It is not how much you do but how much love you put into doing it." Above our front door, we have hung a sign that says, "Today . . . small things with great love (or don't open the door).

The world of efficiency and anonymity dehumanises us. We have to ask who the invisible people are. Who makes our clothes? Who picks our vegetables? And how are they treated?

Tony Campolo, back at Eastern College: "Jesus never says to the poor, 'Come find the church,' but he says to those of us in the church, 'Go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned,' Jesus in his disguises.

the church was an international institution long before globalization.

the crucifixion of Jesus—became the conduit of God's grace and salvation. One

The sins we confess are not just drinking too much beer but also getting drunk on the cocktails of culture. We are not just laying our lives at the altar with nothing to pick up but we are also picking up an irresistible revolution that the world is waiting for.

Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn't that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

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

The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.