Shane Claiborne Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Prayer, Land

• Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people.

  Shane Claiborne

  Prayer, Book, Native American

  Interview with David Crumm, www.readthespirit.com. May 11, 2012.

• [People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not talking about fluffy stuff. We're talking about real life for people around the world. Our prayers should be said like the daily breath that gives us life.

  Shane Claiborne

  Prayer, Real, Talking

  Source: www.readthespirit.com

• This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.

  Shane Claiborne

  Prayer, Taken, Years

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne on Common Prayer". www.readthespirit.com. 2012.

• We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.

  Shane Claiborne

  Prayer, Years, Church

  Interview with David Crumm, www.readthespirit.com. May 11, 2012.

• Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

  Shane Claiborne

  Prayer, Want, Convincing

  Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2009). “Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals”, p.11, InterVarsity Press

• There's an understanding of common prayer that I think we're seeing grow, more and more. When I travel, I hear from people who are deeply touched that our common prayer takes time to remember some of the terrible tragedies that have happened around the world.

  Shane Claiborne

  Prayer, Thinking, People

  Interview with David Crumm, www.readthespirit.com. May 11,2012.

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