198 Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.

Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is not a series of slogans that sum up our beliefs.

Advent is patience it’s how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

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.

Ministers should be the most political of animals because, in contrast to much of what passes as politics in our time, those in the ministry cannot help but be about the formation of a people who can know they need one another to survive. To ask those in the ministry to take seriously your political responsibilities may well entail a radical reorientation of what those in the ministry do. That is particularly true if you believe as I do that we are living at the end of Christendom. Recovering.

We are, quite rightly, not interested in the theoretical issue of suffering and evil; rather, we are torn apart by what is happening to real people, to those we know and love.

That which makes the church “radical” and forever “new” is not that the church tends to lean toward the left on most social issues, but rather that the church knows Jesus whereas the world does not. In the church’s view, the political left is not noticeably more interesting than the political right; both sides tend towards solutions that act as if the world has not ended and begun in Jesus.

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, “Let it be with me according to your word.