It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not… — 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
Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday… — 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
Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers -… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing… — 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
Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God. — 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
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
