Stanley Hauerwas

Saints cannot exist without a community

— Stanley Hauerwas

“Peace is a deeper reality than violence." p. 231”

— Stanley Hauerwas

To know God's name is to know God.

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The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

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The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.

— Stanley Hauerwas

“Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, "Let it be with me according to your word.”

— Stanley Hauerwas

Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.

— Stanley Hauerwas

Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why…

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I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my…

— Stanley Hauerwas

The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which…

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I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Christian salvation consists in works. To be saved is to be made holy. To be saved requires our being made part of…

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American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able…

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When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain…

— Stanley Hauerwas

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but…

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

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It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the…

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

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In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may…

— Stanley Hauerwas

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

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

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I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative…

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Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that…

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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

At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will…

— Stanley Hauerwas

A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are…

— Stanley Hauerwas

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

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

— 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

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and…

— Stanley Hauerwas

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.

— Stanley Hauerwas

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

— 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

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

— Stanley Hauerwas

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

— Stanley Hauerwas