Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God. — 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… — 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… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that… — 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
Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The mentally ill may have shattered lives, but how that is different than the way sin distorts our ability to comprehend who… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get… — 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
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
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
My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she… — 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
Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of… — 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 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
