Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience. — Stanley Hauerwas Advent 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… — Stanley Hauerwas Comprehend 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 Believe 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 Appear 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… — Stanley Hauerwas Able Copy Share Image
When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection. — Stanley Hauerwas About 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… — Stanley Hauerwas Absolutely Copy Share Image
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities. — Stanley Hauerwas Capacities 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 Always 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… — Stanley Hauerwas Become Copy Share Image
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the… — Stanley Hauerwas Assume 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… — Stanley Hauerwas Challenges 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 Avoid Copy Share Image
I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible.… — Stanley Hauerwas Bible Copy Share Image
Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for… — Stanley Hauerwas Able Copy Share Image
I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my… — Stanley Hauerwas About 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 Because Copy Share Image
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Age Copy Share Image
If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism. — Stanley Hauerwas Humanitarian Copy Share Image
Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I… — Stanley Hauerwas Also Copy Share Image
Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love. — Stanley Hauerwas And love 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 Ability Copy Share Image
Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can… — Stanley Hauerwas Assume 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 Anybody Copy Share Image
The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture. — Stanley Hauerwas Bible Copy Share Image
