Stanley M Hauerwas Famous Quotes & Sayings
32 Stanley M Hauerwas Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian.— Stanley Hauerwas
My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she would give that son to God. That was a perfectly appropriate thing for her to do, but as I observe, she did not have to tell me she had made such a promise. In particular, she did not have to tell me when I was six.— Stanley Hauerwas
Being a Christian has not and does not come naturally or easy for me. I take that to be a good thing because I am sure that to be a Christian requires training that lasts a lifetime.— Stanley Hauerwas
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, it's very hard not to use it.— Stanley Hauerwas
When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that.— Stanley Hauerwas
To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.— Stanley Hauerwas
The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.— Stanley Hauerwas
The mentally ill may have shattered lives, but how that is different than the way sin distorts our ability to comprehend who we are as God's creatures is not clear.— Stanley Hauerwas
Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.— Stanley Hauerwas
Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?— Stanley Hauerwas
I am not convinced that the U.S. is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I think the U.S. is a much more secular country than Britain.— Stanley Hauerwas
Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.— Stanley Hauerwas
Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, Let it be with me according to your word.— Stanley Hauerwas
In a world of deep injustice and violence, a people exists that thinks some can be given time to study. We need you to take seriously the calling that is yours by virtue of going to college.— Stanley Hauerwas
Jesus is the parable of the Father's love given to transform us so that we might be drawn into the new creation called the kingdom of God.— Stanley Hauerwas
The church occupies the space he has made so that the world may see what a people look like who are not determined by the destructive fantasy that we can secure our lives through violence.— Stanley Hauerwas
Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.— Stanley Hauerwas
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.— Stanley Hauerwas
Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.— Stanley Hauerwas
The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.— Stanley Hauerwas
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.— Stanley Hauerwas
Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.— Stanley Hauerwas
Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent fades, so people naturally disposed to faith may fail to develop the skills necessary to sustain them for a lifetime.— Stanley Hauerwas
Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.— Stanley Hauerwas
I think Bonhoeffer rightly saw that the Christian acceptance that truth does not matter in such small matters prepared the ground for the terrible lie that was Hitler.— Stanley Hauerwas
I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.— Stanley Hauerwas
We believe that many Christians do not fully appreciate the odd way in which the church, when it is most faithful, goes about its business. We want to claim the church's "oddness" as essential to its faithfulness.— Stanley Hauerwas
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 God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.— Stanley Hauerwas
William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.— Stanley Hauerwas
The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.— Stanley Hauerwas
I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame.— Stanley Hauerwas
Hear these words, "My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?" and know that the Son of God has taken our place, become for us the abandonment our sin produces, so that we may live confident that the world has been redeemed by this cross. So— Stanley Hauerwas
