Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen. — Stanley Hauerwas Civil Copy Share Image
A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are… — Stanley Hauerwas Ask questions 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
I am not convinced that the U.S. is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I… — Stanley Hauerwas Am 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 do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing… — Stanley Hauerwas Abolish 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
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
It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s… — Stanley Hauerwas Age 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
The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy. — Stanley Hauerwas Christianity Copy Share Image
Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was… — Stanley Hauerwas Currently Copy Share Image
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations. — Stanley Hauerwas Act 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
In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may… — Stanley Hauerwas About Copy Share Image
The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To… — Stanley Hauerwas Become Copy Share Image
I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative… — Stanley Hauerwas Ability Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to… — Stanley Hauerwas Belief Copy Share Image
Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but… — Stanley Hauerwas After 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 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
To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but… — Stanley Hauerwas Charity 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
It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the… — Stanley Hauerwas Accepted Copy Share Image
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape. — Stanley Hauerwas Cooperate Copy Share Image
