No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I — Stanley Hauerwas Determine 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
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. — Stanley Hauerwas Delight 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
Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence. — Stanley Hauerwas Alternative Copy Share Image
“Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, "Let it be with me according to your word.” — Stanley Hauerwas Humility Copy Share Image
Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is… — Stanley Hauerwas Always 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
The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the… — Stanley Hauerwas Accounts 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
Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of… — Stanley Hauerwas America Copy Share Image
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may… — Stanley Hauerwas Any 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 Foreign Copy Share Image
Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of… — Stanley Hauerwas Came 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 Church 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
To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment… — Stanley Hauerwas Acquire Copy Share Image
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 Book Copy Share Image
By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed… — Stanley Hauerwas Became Copy Share Image
Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable… — Stanley Hauerwas Became Copy Share Image
Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again. — Stanley Hauerwas Again 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 About 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 Believe 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 Assumes Copy Share Image
