I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain… — 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
I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I am not convinced that the U.S. is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I… — 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
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
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
