[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we… — 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
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,… — 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
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
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
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
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