The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess. — Stanley Hauerwas College Copy Share Image
Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, "Let it be with me according to your word.” — Stanley Hauerwas Humble Copy Share Image
“The loss of Christendom gives us a joyous opportunity to reclaim the freedom to proclaim the gospel in a way in which… — Stanley Hauerwas Christendom Copy Share Image
In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Age Copy Share Image
Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God’s kingdom transcend… — Stanley Hauerwas Pay the price Copy Share Image
I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative… — Stanley Hauerwas Ability Copy Share Image
Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will… — Stanley Hauerwas Benefit Copy Share Image
Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about. — Stanley Hauerwas Christian Copy Share Image
Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which… — Stanley Hauerwas Bible Copy Share Image
I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way. — Stanley Hauerwas Church Copy Share Image
Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism. — Stanley Hauerwas Christianity Copy Share Image
God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are. — Stanley Hauerwas Books Copy Share Image
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church. — Stanley Hauerwas Catholic Copy Share Image
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal… — Stanley Hauerwas Appropriation Copy Share Image
