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Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
— 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
Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.
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I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.
— Stanley Hauerwas
I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
— Stanley Hauerwas
The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.
— Stanley Hauerwas
I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.
— Stanley Hauerwas
As long as it is assumed that war is always an available option, we will not be forced to imagine any alternative to war.
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Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.
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You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.
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The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.
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I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.
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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.
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The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated.
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No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I
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Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
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I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my early teens.
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Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again.
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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
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.
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We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.
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God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.
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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
The courageous have fears that cowards never know.
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The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
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Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, Let it be with me according to your word.
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I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.
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'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.
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The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.
— Stanley Hauerwas
God knows why God has made some of us ecclesiastically homeless, but I hope and pray that our being so may be in service to Christian unity.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
— 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 our God.
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The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.
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Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.
— Stanley Hauerwas
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.
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When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.
— 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
Peace is a deeper reality than violence."p. 231 — Stanley Hauerwas
God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.
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William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.
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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.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.
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We are opaque mysteries to ourselves and one another.
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A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
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We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.
— Stanley Hauerwas
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
— Stanley Hauerwas
The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our spiritual condition.
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The church doesn't have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.
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I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.
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The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me.
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The fundamental character of our faith means an extensive diversity is required not only within local community, but between communities.
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Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.
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Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.
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The problem with most pastors and theologians was that the way they went about their business did not require the existence of God.
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To know God's name is to know God.
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I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'
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Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?
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Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.
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