Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living As An Ordinary Radical Quotes

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.

Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

It’s hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, ‘you tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.

While most activists could use a good dose of gentleness, I think most believers could use a good dose of holy anger.