Shane Claiborne Quotes

I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Don't ever forget the history! It will make and change who we are!

Change is painful, and people are always reticent to accept a lot of pain.

You take the negative, the bitter, the pain, the suffering, the depression, and all of those are ingredients for something far more purposeful than you can imagine.

We'd all like to increase pleasure and minimize pain, but the truth is, suffering, even collective suffering that we're going through, is often the earmark that some real change is happening.

From out of pain, beauty.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.

We are created by being destroyed.

The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

There is no growth if there is no change. There is no change if there is no loss. There is no loss if there is no pain.

Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

Beauty that arose out of pain.

There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.