I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or… — 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
Christians need jobs just like anybody else, but the years you spend as an undergraduate are like everything else in your life.… — 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
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
Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay 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
I cannot imagine a more realistic faith than the Christian faith. At every turn, we are told we are death-determined creatures and… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the… — 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to… — 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
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
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
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience. — Stanley Hauerwas 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 have to… — Stanley Hauerwas 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 can be… — 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, the care… — Stanley Hauerwas 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 ourselves. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection. — 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 state because… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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