I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. — Stanley Hauerwas Catholic Copy Share Image
I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me, — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are. — Stanley Hauerwas 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 Bricklayers Copy Share Image
I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in… — Stanley Hauerwas 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 Copy Share Image
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church. — Stanley Hauerwas Catholic Copy Share Image
The 'Cold War' impinged on the daily lives of Americans. The wars after 11 September 2001 have been fought without the general… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the… — Stanley Hauerwas Cross Copy Share Image
To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or… — Stanley Hauerwas Charitable 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 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 Copy Share Image
To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and… — Stanley Hauerwas 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 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 Copy Share Image
The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam's perspective is the imposition on them of Christian… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war… — Stanley Hauerwas Ability 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 Copy Share Image
“Mainline American Protestantism, as is often the case, plodded wearily along as if nothing had changed. Like an aging dowager, living in… — Stanley Hauerwas Church leaders 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 Copy Share Image
Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that… — Stanley Hauerwas 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
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
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are. — Stanley Hauerwas Books 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 Copy Share Image
I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North… — Stanley Hauerwas 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
I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity. — Stanley Hauerwas 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 Humble Copy Share Image
Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why… — Stanley Hauerwas 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
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
Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way. — Stanley Hauerwas Church 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 Copy Share Image
