Shane Claiborne Quotes

I went through a couple of years there just mad at the world. I put my faith in the world and the world let me down. And I should have known that. The world's always going to let you down. Put your faith in God.

Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.

Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years.

Jesus is the inspiration for anyone to go the distance.

I see so many people. They just seem to be hopeless. Being a Christian and being a pastor, the ultimate hope is in Jesus.

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

Are you facing a superheated furnace? What God wants is for you to look full in the face of Jesus. Get your focus off whatever it is that appears to be unanswered and focus on the Son.

It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

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

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

I'm not disillusioned with Clinton. I never had any illusions.

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

We're all going to experience death and failure and setbacks and disappointments and cancer and, you know, it's a really difficult world. And for me, God has always - in my relationship with Christ - He's given me hope and peace.

Then, when my dad was diagnosed with cancer, I started to notice this crazy transformation, where he fell desperately in love with Jesus.

Christianity doesn't offer a smooth flight; it provides a safe landing. The promise of Jesus is not one of happiness, He promises righteousness.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

Do not look to your hope, but to Jesus, the Source of your hope.

If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.

When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.