Shane Claiborne Quotes

American activist and author

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Shane Claiborne (born July 11, 1975) is one of the founding members of a New Monastic community named the Potter Street Community (formerly The Simple Way) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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I guess God can use the mafia, but I would like God to use the church. (p. 63)

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me. (p. 51)

Perhaps the devil is just as likely to wear a three-piece suit as to have horns and a pitchfork. And perhaps the angels look more like the bums in the alley than like feathered white babies. (p. 50)

I must say that I am still passionately pro-life, I just have a much more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception and end at birth, and that if I am going to discourage abortion, I had better be ready to adopt some babies and care for some mothers. (p. 44)