Shane Claiborne Quotes

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

Sanctions are a very un-Christian weapon.

Sixty-nine percent think it's against God's will to clone human beings. Well, if it were against God's will, wouldn't he just kill all the cloners? Wouldn't he just stop it on his own?

I had believed it [organizing the Watergate break-in] was wrong but believed that the greater good was in serving the President.

Many a dormant moral issue is brought to life by economic pressure.

I don't believe a Christian has to sell his soul to the devil to vote for Donald Trump.

Part of being a former abortion clinic worker is learning how to deal with your past sin.

Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.

He is the way, the truth, and the light, and no one can come back into the presence of our Father in heaven except through him. Christ is God the Son and possesses every virtue in its perfection. Therefore, the only measure of true greatness is how close a man can become like Jesus. That man is greatest who is most like Christ, and those who love him most will be most like him.

Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this preacher, I wanted to show a good man struggling to reconcile his commitment to the community with the political agenda of his church. He does not see that as a dilemma, but I do.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?

For me, as a Christian I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right.

We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?

To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.

Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.

It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust of unfairness and create a chance for a new fairness. Only forgiveness can make the breakthrough.

I believe all children are - are blessings from God. And to allocate that rule to a doctor - to - to dispose of a life is uncomprehensible to me.

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong.