Shane Claiborne Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you hold them with open hands. The mark of the early church was that they began sharing and it said there were no needy persons among them. They ended poverty as they created this new loving community.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mean, Hands, Community

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

• Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

  Shane Claiborne

  Crazy, War, Believe

• It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

  Shane Claiborne

  Beautiful, Dream, Struggle

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

• I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Believe, Tragedy

• If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of these peculiar people. Then we can look into the eyes of a centurion and see not a beast but a child of God, and then walk with that child a couple of miles. Look into the eys of tax collectors as they sue you in court; see their poverty and give them your coat. Look in to the eys of the ones who are hardest for you to like, and see the One you love. For God loves good and bad people.

  Shane Claiborne

  Children, Couple, Teaching

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.95, Harper Collins

• We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see much poverty or the injustices that live on our doorstep.

  Shane Claiborne

  People, Suffering, Matter

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

• There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

  Shane Claiborne

  Poverty, Urban, Appalachia

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

• Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice.

  Shane Claiborne

  Party, Responsibility, Compassion

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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

  Shane Claiborne

  Talking, Dinner, Fancy

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.115, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Shane Claiborne

  Crazy, War, World

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.290, ReadHowYouWant.com

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