Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are… — Stanley Hauerwas Church Copy Share Image
Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount,… — Stanley Hauerwas Bounds Copy Share Image
Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The idea is that Jesus overcame death through the Resurrection. What that does is fail to appreciate the fact that the resurrected… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to… — Stanley Hauerwas Ability Copy Share Image
It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . .… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that… — Stanley Hauerwas America Copy Share Image
Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of… — Stanley Hauerwas America Copy Share Image
In a world of deep injustice and violence, a people exists that thinks some can be given time to study. We need… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that… — Stanley Hauerwas Assumes Copy Share Image
I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like… — Stanley Hauerwas Anguish Copy Share Image
The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may… — Stanley Hauerwas Books Copy Share Image
“As a society of unbelief, Western culture is devoid of a sense of journey, of adventure, because it lacks belief in much… — Stanley Hauerwas Adventure Copy Share Image
I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices… — Stanley Hauerwas Challenges Copy Share Image
America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that… — Stanley Hauerwas Idols Copy Share Image
To be a Christian means you become a part of the most significant story the world has ever heard. You don't become… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if… — Stanley Hauerwas Bricklayer Copy Share Image
