Just Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

10 Just quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley’s ten ‘Just’ statements cut to the core of ethical thought, offering a brief yet weighty glimpse into his moral philosophy.

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Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may…

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There is nothing wrong with making money, but it was just not in my family's habits to know how to do that.…

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I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention…

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Christians need jobs just like anybody else, but the years you spend as an undergraduate are like everything else in your life.…

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I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual…

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The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power,…

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We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we…

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The idea is that Jesus overcame death through the Resurrection. What that does is fail to appreciate the fact that the resurrected…

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Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent…

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The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that…

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Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

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It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to…

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I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be…

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Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church, the care…

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God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.

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When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

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To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because…

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Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

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The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated.

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I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an…

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The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of…

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One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of…

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'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid…

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I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is…

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Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for Christianity they…

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