198 Quotes by 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.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.

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.

Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common experience, because states like the United States depend on the story of our wars for our ability to narrate our history as a unified story.