Anything Quote by Stanley Hauerwas

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

— Stanley Hauerwas

It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church, the care…

— Stanley Hauerwas

God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.

— Stanley Hauerwas

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

— Stanley Hauerwas

To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

— Stanley Hauerwas

The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated.

— Stanley Hauerwas

I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an…

— Stanley Hauerwas

The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of…

— Stanley Hauerwas

One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of…

— Stanley Hauerwas