Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
[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
Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world,… — 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,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are… — 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
Christian salvation consists in works. To be saved is to be made holy. To be saved requires our being made part of… — 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… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
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 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
In a world of deep injustice and violence, a people exists that thinks some can be given time to study. We need… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the… — 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
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
For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . .… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
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 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
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
The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the… — 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
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
![“[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would…” quote by Stanley Hauerwas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e97/stanley-hauerwas-2675_christian_w-e-must-first-experience-the-kingdom-if_688819.jpg)
