Shane Claiborne Quotes

I converted to Christianity because I was convinced by Jesus Christ as a character, as a personality. I loved him, his wisdom, his love, his unconditional love.

I never heard the Gospel until I was 18 years old. Jesus Christ... the name was synonymous to me as the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus.

Power is the essence of the Christian witness.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.

Jesus is the inspiration for anyone to go the distance.

I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.

No other single influence has had so great an impact on this earth as the life of Jesus the Christ.

From the sense of being an ambassador for Jesus Christ, hopefully, through my story and through all the improbables and the miracles that happened in my life, people are inspired or at least a little bit warmer to the idea of exploring who Jesus is.

I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.

The core of the Jesus message is what has made him relevant for twenty centuries.

When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one. My text is, 'When I found Jesus.'

Sometimes I think Jesus can't wait until we preachers finish our boring sermons. He can't wait to heal people.

Every generation has a right to hear the Gospel, the ABC's of the Gospel - the Gospel of salvation.

It's all about Jesus.

What I'm interested in is to get people saved and to see the power of God spread.

I'd like to thank Jesus. He's the one who changed my life.

Let us never forget this, he is pure mercy, let us go to Jesus!

Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.

Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.

I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.

I am passionate about God, about Jesus, and what His influences do to me.

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.