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
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
I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy. — 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
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
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
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
I am not sure I can make clear what it means to say I come from the Catholic side of Protestantism, but… — 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
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
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
