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 Copy Share Image
One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic… — Stanley Hauerwas 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 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 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 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
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may… — Stanley Hauerwas 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 Copy Share Image
Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday… — Stanley Hauerwas 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 Copy Share Image
At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will… — Stanley Hauerwas Benefit Copy Share Image
We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get… — Stanley Hauerwas 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
Being a Christian has not and does not come naturally or easy for me. I take that to be a good thing… — Stanley Hauerwas 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal… — Stanley Hauerwas Appropriation Copy Share Image
The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve… — Stanley Hauerwas Community Copy Share Image
I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible.… — Stanley Hauerwas Bible 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 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 Copy Share Image
'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Age 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
My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her… — Stanley Hauerwas 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 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 Copy Share Image
