198 Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.

I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.

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.

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

The idea is that Jesus overcame death through the Resurrection. What that does is fail to appreciate the fact that the resurrected Christ is the crucified Christ. It's not like, 'Oh, that was just a mistake, now it's over.' Jesus continues to suffer from our sins.

Saints cannot exist without a community

American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able to produce an interesting atheist in America.

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.