Colin C > Colin's Quotes

“I don't really believe that humans are evil; it is just that we are not very intelligent animals. No animal is so stupid as to foul its only nest, except humans.”
― Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

“Uncurious people do not lead examined lives; they cannot see causes that lie deeper than the surface.”
― Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

“I’m not ready to walk on water, but I’m also not ready to let the televangelists and prosperity preachers hijack the supernatural stuff from the rest of us. Imagine what would happen if the prayer movement and social justice movement converged, and we had Christians who prayed like they depend on God and lived like God depended on them?”
― Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical

“In our culture of “seeker sensitivity” and radical inclusivity, the great temptation is to compromise the cost of discipleship in order to draw a larger crowd. With the most sincere hearts, we do not want to see anyone walk away from Jesus because of the discomfort of his cross, so we clip the claws on the Lion a little, we clean up a bit the bloody Passion we are called to follow.”
― Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring