Stanley Hauerwas Quotes

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• Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put…
• The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated…
• Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God.…
• Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
• I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me,
• The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one…
• I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if…
• For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God…
• The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.
• My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I…
• Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a…
• The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never…
• Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making…
• The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.
• Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.
• I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.
• The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by God’s patience,…
• From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not…
• Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.
• Saints cannot exist without a community

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