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
Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a more realistic faith than the Christian faith. At every turn, we are told we are death-determined creatures and… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our… — 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
