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Us Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas
- Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
- 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…
- Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary…
- Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday possible. It gives…
- Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject…
- Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has created a new…
- To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than…
- I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the…
- Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very…
- Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made…
- Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.
- Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong