When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection. — Stanley Hauerwas 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
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
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
Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but… — Stanley Hauerwas 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
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
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
