Religion Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

— Stanley Hauerwas

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

— Stanley Hauerwas

The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our…

— Stanley Hauerwas

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.

— Stanley Hauerwas

Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.

— Stanley Hauerwas

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

— Stanley Hauerwas

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

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

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

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to…

— Stanley Hauerwas

From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal…

— Stanley Hauerwas

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“Mainline American Protestantism, as is often the case, plodded wearily along as if nothing had changed. Like an aging dowager, living in…

— Stanley Hauerwas

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

Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God’s kingdom transcend…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again.

— Stanley Hauerwas

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

To be a Christian means you become a part of the most significant story the world has ever heard. You don't become…

— Stanley Hauerwas

America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of…

— Stanley Hauerwas

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of…

— Stanley Hauerwas

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is…

— Stanley Hauerwas