Quotes about Awareness
Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.
— Seneca
One should count each day a separate life.
— Seneca
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?
— Shane Claiborne
The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.
— Shane Claiborne
Dom Helder Camara, a twentieth-century bishop in Brazil, said, "When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a Communist.
— Shane Claiborne
Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.
— Shane Claiborne
When we did so poorly at helping folks recover from drug addiction, we stepped back and said, "Duh, no wonder. None of us are heroine addicts.
— Shane Claiborne
Sin, too, is real. All we have to do is look at the news or, if our vision is good enough, look in the mirror.
— Shane Claiborne
If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision.
— Shane Claiborne
As I left Calcutta, it occurred to me that I was returning to a land of lepers, a land of people who had forgotten how to feel, to laugh, to cry, a land haunted by numbness. Could we learn to feel again?
— Shane Claiborne
Mother Teresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta." I
— Shane Claiborne
If you find yourself climbing the ladder of success, be careful or else on your way up you might pass Jesus on his way down.
— Shane Claiborne