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
Christians need jobs just like anybody else, but the years you spend as an undergraduate are like everything else in your life.… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or… — 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 must begin by telling you that I do not like to preach on Reformation Sunday. Actually, I have to put it… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power,… — 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
I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the… — 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
I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam's perspective is the imposition on them of Christian… — 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
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
