Shane Claiborne Quotes

Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet.

We have all had times...when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. ...[I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.

When you become consumed by God's call on your life, everything will take on new meaning and significance. You will begin to see every facet of your life - including your pain - as a means through which God can work to bring others to Himself.

Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.

No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.

A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

Now is the time to Start a Normal Christian Life!

Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives.

Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?

Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

Christians are not patched-up sinners, they are new creations.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

There's a saying that goes around that says "I you crossover make sure you bring the cross over." That's definitely my heart and my aim. I want to remain distinct and authentically Christian in whatever realm I'm in.

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ.

The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world

One doesn't begin to be a Christian because of an ethical decision or a great idea, but rather because of an encounter with an event, with a Person, who gives new horizons to life, and with that, a decisive orientation.

True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

I think that as a Christian, we're to be a light in this world. I think it's almost like saying "Christian American," it doesn't mean that I'm not American, it just means that I'm distinctly and authentically Christian as much as I am American.

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (...) Being saved is trusting in what Christ did for us, but being Christian is dependent on the way we respond to what he did for us.

My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.