Shane Claiborne Quotes

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

I think religion is often very different from spirituality. Religion is often about rules and people trying to control our lives who are actually very unspiritual... God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don

Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.

I just think it's strange when people say, "There is no God." Because I feel so connected to people and things that I just can't deny that there's a God who wants us to tell good stories and be the best we can be and forgive and be forgiven, even if we're not the best we can be. I really believe innately that we do the best we can.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

I would say that God is much bigger than all of this. I've been through difficult times where it just seems like hope is nowhere to be found, but those are some of the greater moments where we run to Christ a little faster and hang on a little tighter. Through the hardest times in life, I hope people turn to him and realize he's still a sovereign God; he's in control.

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

Christ's own 'God-forsaken-ness' on the cross showed me where God is present where God had been present in those nights of deaths in the fire storms in Hamburg and where God would be present in my future whatever may come.

My first reaction in pastoral care is not to explain. And again, I don't think the primary purpose of the Bible is to explain suffering. I never have, because the actual explanations are often inadequate. I think the primary purpose of Scripture is to say I am all you need in this suffering and I need comfort.

We can still hear the voices that echo through history. Their message is as true today as ever. The people of Poland, the people of America, and the people of Europe still cry out "We want God."

The most important thing ... is the name of the Lord. The name of the Lord will be glorified. I want to let the people know that there is a God who can raise people from nothing into something. And that's me. I came from nothing into something.

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.

I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out at the land, I think that this, if nothing else, is compelling evidence for my parents’ God, that our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel. -Tris Prior

We need not just one flash of light and comfort, but we need the continuing blessing of communication with God.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

People have faith in 'faith' and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

You need not to know much about Heaven-it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us.