Stanley HauerwasFrom 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.361Thought
Stanley HauerwasAdvent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.376Humanity
Stanley HauerwasThe basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated as what works (it usually does not), but advocated … ▶344Life
Stanley HauerwasSaints 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 G… ▶312HopeHumanityReflection
Stanley HauerwasI simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me. ✨ Stanley Hauerwas (2012). Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir, p.165, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publ… ▶335Life
Stanley HauerwasThe courageous have fears that cowards never know. ✨ Crusaders and Pacifists. The Spirit of Things with Rachael Kohn, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2012.281Sadness
Stanley HauerwasIf I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.304HumanityPoliticsThought
Stanley HauerwasGentleness 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… ▶3610Sadness
Stanley HauerwasThe basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.272Death
Stanley HauerwasOnly the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love. ✨ Stanley Hauerwas, John Berkman, Michael Cartwright (2001). The Hauerwas Rea… ▶339LovePoliticsReading
Stanley HauerwasNever 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.3410ThoughtTime
Stanley HauerwasThe movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by God’s patience, to challenge the world’s impatient v… ▶286HumanityTime
Stanley HauerwasThe lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture. ✨ Calling & Character: Virtues of the Ordained Life. Book by William H. Willimon, September 1, 2010.286LifeReading
Stanley HauerwasJesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.287Time
Stanley HauerwasMy father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned… ▶232Time
Stanley HauerwasConsider 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 … ▶2810HopeHumanityReading
Stanley HauerwasI am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church. ✨ Stanley Hauerwas (2013). Approaching the End: Eschatolo… ▶269LifePoliticsReflection
Stanley HauerwasSaints cannot exist without a community ✨ Stanley Hauerwas (2010). Christian Existence Today: Essays on Church, World, and Living in Between, p.103, Wipf and Stock Publisher… ▶171Life
Stanley HauerwasA social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities.… ▶183HumanityLifeTime
Stanley HauerwasWhenever 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.194Humanity
Stanley HauerwasThe 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 ac… ▶239HumanityThoughtTruth
Stanley HauerwasFor 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. ✨ Stanley Hauerwas,… ▶207HopeReading
Stanley HauerwasChurch growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.2210Death
Stanley HauerwasThe church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.143Politics
Stanley HauerwasAnother hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God. It is a pol… ▶155PoliticsReading
Stanley HauerwasThe most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never achieve through social coercion or governmental actio… ▶144LifePolitics
Stanley HauerwasI 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… ▶1510Truth
