God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God. — Stanley Hauerwas Before 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
Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God. — Stanley Hauerwas Been 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 church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy. — Stanley Hauerwas Christianity Copy Share Image
I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.' — Stanley Hauerwas Because Copy Share Image
We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires. — Stanley Hauerwas Don't fall in love Copy Share Image
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
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
Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent… — Stanley Hauerwas After 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 Bounds Copy Share Image
Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of… — Stanley Hauerwas Anyone 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
The idea is that Jesus overcame death through the Resurrection. What that does is fail to appreciate the fact that the resurrected… — Stanley Hauerwas Appreciate Copy Share Image
The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to… — Stanley Hauerwas Ability 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 assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of… — Stanley Hauerwas Afterthought Copy Share Image
“Mainline American Protestantism, as is often the case, plodded wearily along as if nothing had changed. Like an aging dowager, living in… — Stanley Hauerwas Church leaders 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 Between Copy Share Image
From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral… — Stanley Hauerwas Abandon 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
My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she… — Stanley Hauerwas Appropriate 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 Achieve Copy Share Image
Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the… — Stanley Hauerwas Business Copy Share Image
I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy. — Stanley Hauerwas Born Copy Share Image
The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are. — Stanley Hauerwas American Copy Share Image
William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity. — Stanley Hauerwas He Copy Share Image
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. — Stanley Hauerwas Catholic Copy Share Image
I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me, — Stanley Hauerwas Get over Copy Share Image
The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is… — Stanley Hauerwas Bricklayers 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
No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I — Stanley Hauerwas Control 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 Alternative Copy Share Image
'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work. — Stanley Hauerwas Accomplished Copy Share Image
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is. — Stanley Hauerwas Bases Copy Share Image
Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence. — Stanley Hauerwas Alternative 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
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
Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess. — Stanley Hauerwas College 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 Abandoned Copy Share Image
