Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others,… — Stanley Hauerwas Because Copy Share Image
The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that… — Stanley Hauerwas America Copy Share Image
Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world,… — Stanley Hauerwas Crosses 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
In a world of deep injustice and violence, a people exists that thinks some can be given time to study. We need… — Stanley Hauerwas Calling 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 Baptized Copy Share Image
My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her… — Stanley Hauerwas After 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
[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we… — Stanley Hauerwas Christian Copy Share Image
“Free is not how many of our citizens feel—with our overstocked medicine cabinets, burglar alarms, vast ghettos, and drug culture. Eighteen hundred… — Stanley Hauerwas New yorkers Copy Share Image
Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the… — Stanley Hauerwas Accounts 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
I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that… — Stanley Hauerwas Also Copy Share Image
I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like… — Stanley Hauerwas Anguish 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
The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our… — Stanley Hauerwas Alternative Copy Share Image
Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may… — Stanley Hauerwas Books Copy Share Image
“As a society of unbelief, Western culture is devoid of a sense of journey, of adventure, because it lacks belief in much… — Stanley Hauerwas Adventure 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
We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we… — Stanley Hauerwas Complain 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
America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that… — Stanley Hauerwas Always Copy Share Image
Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity… — Stanley Hauerwas Am Copy Share Image
Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that… — Stanley Hauerwas Idols 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 Become Copy Share Image
The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war… — Stanley Hauerwas Abolish Copy Share Image
My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if… — Stanley Hauerwas Bricklayer Copy Share Image
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that… — Stanley Hauerwas Development 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
I am not sure I can make clear what it means to say I come from the Catholic side of Protestantism, but… — Stanley Hauerwas Am 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 Actually 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
Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate… — Stanley Hauerwas American 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
Being a Christian has not and does not come naturally or easy for me. I take that to be a good thing… — Stanley Hauerwas A good thing Copy Share Image
“The loss of Christendom gives us a joyous opportunity to reclaim the freedom to proclaim the gospel in a way in which… — Stanley Hauerwas Christendom Copy Share Image
In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War… — Stanley Hauerwas Achieve Copy Share Image
The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle… — Stanley Hauerwas Argue 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
My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to… — Stanley Hauerwas Anything Copy Share Image
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