Stanley Hauerwas Quotes
Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.
We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.
It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.
Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.
To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.
We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.
For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.
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 at odds with the world.
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
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 to learn the story of God.
The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I
If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.
Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.
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 triumph came through the meekness of a cross.
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 matter.
Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.
To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.
Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
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 flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.
Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.
Peace is a deeper reality than violence."p. 231
Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, "Let it be with me according to your word.
You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.
