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Shane Claiborne

"Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed.Â People do not get crucified for charity.Â People are crucified for living out a love that disrupts the social order, that calls forth a new world.Â People are not crucified for helping poor people.Â People are crucified for joining them."

Source : Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.86, ReadHowYouWant.com

Shane Claiborne

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“Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better”
“The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.”
“I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.”
“We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements.Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!”
“French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.”
“I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.”
“Christlike communications will help us to develop righteous relationships and ultimately to return to our heavenly home safely. May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality.”
“The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.”

Source : Dan Simmons (2009). “Carrion Comfort”, p.267, Macmillan

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