Stanley Hauerwas Quotes

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileg...

Jesus is the politics of the new age He is about the establishment of a kingdom He is the one who ha...

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food...

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who...

Jesus is the politics of the new age He is about the establishment of a kingdom He is the one who ha...

Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know ...

First of all, it's friendship with God that makes possible friendship with one another in a manner t...

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can...

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph...

I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized...

The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam's perspective is th...

You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.

Peace is a deeper reality than violence."p. 231

Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the...

My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if ...

I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by pr...

The cross is not a sign of the church's quiet, suffering submission to the powers-that-be, but rathe...

The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the worl...

Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, "Let it be with me according to your word.

That which makes the church "radical" and forever "new" is not that the church tends to lean toward ...

The church is not to be judged by how useful we are as a "supportive institution" and our clergy as ...

We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundarie...

No wonder modern humanity, even as it loudly proclaims its freedom and power to choose, is really an...

As a society of unbelief, Western culture is devoid of a sense of journey, of adventure, because it ...

The Church really does not know what [peace and justice] mean apart from the life and death of Jesus...

On the other hand, activist Christians who talk much about justice promote a notion of justice that ...

For example, when Christians discuss sex, it often sounds as if we are somehow "against sex". What w...

In fact, even Tillich's socialism was accommodationist because it continued the Constantinian strate...