Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.' — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Being a Christian has not and does not come naturally or easy for me. I take that to be a good thing… — 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 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Christian salvation consists in works. To be saved is to be made holy. To be saved requires our being made part of… — 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
I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative… — 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
American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church, the care… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
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
I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for Christianity they… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
