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
To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life.… — Stanley Hauerwas After Copy Share Image
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 Available Copy Share Image
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which… — Stanley Hauerwas Bible Copy Share Image
“We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God’s kingdom transcend… — Stanley Hauerwas Pay the price 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 Close 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
William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity. — Stanley Hauerwas He Copy Share Image
The mentally ill may have shattered lives, but how that is different than the way sin distorts our ability to comprehend who… — Stanley Hauerwas Ability 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
There is nothing wrong with making money, but it was just not in my family's habits to know how to do that.… — Stanley Hauerwas Did Copy Share Image
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
To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers -… — Stanley Hauerwas Actually 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
I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me, — Stanley Hauerwas Get over Copy Share Image
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism. — Stanley Hauerwas Christianity Copy Share Image
Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about. — Stanley Hauerwas Christian Copy Share Image
The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus… — Stanley Hauerwas Bitter Copy Share Image
Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence… — Stanley Hauerwas Because Copy Share Image
I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity. — Stanley Hauerwas Am Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a more realistic faith than the Christian faith. At every turn, we are told we are death-determined creatures and… — Stanley Hauerwas Brief 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
Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way. — Stanley Hauerwas Church Copy Share Image
I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention… — Stanley Hauerwas Another Copy Share Image
