To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life.… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried… — 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
Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The 'Cold War' impinged on the daily lives of Americans. The wars after 11 September 2001 have been fought without the general… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate… — 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
The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the… — 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
