When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection. — 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
'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible… — 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
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
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
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
It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why… — 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
