Stanley Hauerwas

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

— Stanley Hauerwas

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

Saints cannot exist without a community

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

To know God's name is to know God.

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God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.

— Stanley Hauerwas

If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

— Stanley Hauerwas

Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.

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Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

— Stanley Hauerwas

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

— Stanley Hauerwas

I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

— Stanley Hauerwas

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

— Stanley Hauerwas

I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.

— Stanley Hauerwas

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that…

— Stanley Hauerwas

To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I am not sure I can make clear what it means to say I come from the Catholic side of Protestantism, but…

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I must begin by telling you that I do not like to preach on Reformation Sunday. Actually, I have to put it…

— Stanley Hauerwas

The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Being a Christian has not and does not come naturally or easy for me. I take that to be a good thing…

— Stanley Hauerwas

The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam's perspective is the imposition on them of Christian…

— Stanley Hauerwas

From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral…

— Stanley Hauerwas

One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war…

— Stanley Hauerwas

My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the…

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The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the…

— Stanley Hauerwas

[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we…

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“Free is not how many of our citizens feel—with our overstocked medicine cabinets, burglar alarms, vast ghettos, and drug culture. Eighteen hundred…

— Stanley Hauerwas

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

— Stanley Hauerwas

William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.

— Stanley Hauerwas

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

— Stanley Hauerwas

I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me,

— Stanley Hauerwas

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

— Stanley Hauerwas

The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is…

— Stanley Hauerwas

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I

— Stanley Hauerwas

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

— Stanley Hauerwas

I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the…

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'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.

— Stanley Hauerwas