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“Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the po0r rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said.”
― Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

“Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.”
― Shane Claiborne

“We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be born again to enter the Kingdom of God, I can tell you that you have to sell everything you have and give it to the poor, because Jesus said that to one guy, too. But I guess that's why God invented highlighers, so we can highlight the parts we like and ignore the rest.”
― Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

“One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.”
― Shane Claiborne, Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals