Shane Claiborne Quotes

Everyone's got to have a bit of faith.

The poorest person on earth is the person without faith.

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

You're never without hope, because you're never without prayer.

Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.

We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.

I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.

God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

And this I do believe above all, especially in times of greater discouragement, that I must BELIEVE-that I must believe in my fellow people-that I must believe in myself-that I must believe in God-if life is to have any meaning.

I believe in believing.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.