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Stanley Hauerwas Quotes

I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian Picture Quote #1

Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday possible. It gives us the time that lets us care for one another as we are ill, helps us care for one another as we experience broken relationships, and helps us take the time to worship God in a world of such violence Picture Quote #1

We don’t fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires Picture Quote #1

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism Picture Quote #1

Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church Picture Quote #1

[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would transform the world into their image Picture Quote #1

In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that Picture Quote #1

The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement Picture Quote #1

God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves Picture Quote #1

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus’s death and resurrection Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him? Picture Quote #1

The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible Picture Quote #1

I cannot imagine a more realistic faith than the Christian faith. At every turn, we are told we are death-determined creatures and that our lives, our all too brief lives, at the very least will be complex if not difficult Picture Quote #1

To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war Picture Quote #1

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her ‘effects’ after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent Picture Quote #1

Being a Christian has not and does not come naturally or easy for me. I take that to be a good thing because I am sure that to be a Christian requires training that lasts a lifetime Picture Quote #1

Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian Picture Quote #1

One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love Picture Quote #1

Saints cannot exist without a community Picture Quote #1

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Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way Picture Quote #1

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy Picture Quote #1

The 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 act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints Picture Quote #1

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many Picture Quote #1

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen Picture Quote #1

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created Picture Quote #1

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I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian. (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday possible. It gives us the time that lets us care for one another as we are ill, helps us care for one another as we experience broken relationships, and helps us take the time to worship God in a world of such violence. (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) We don’t fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) 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 Quotes) I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) [W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would transform the world into their image (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus’s death and resurrection. (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my early teens. (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him? (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible. (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) I cannot imagine a more realistic faith than the Christian faith. At every turn, we are told we are death-determined creatures and that our lives, our all too brief lives, at the very least will be complex if not difficult. (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war. (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her ‘effects’ after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth. (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) 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. (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent. (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) Being a Christian has not and does not come naturally or easy for me. I take that to be a good thing because I am sure that to be a Christian requires training that lasts a lifetime. (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian. (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love. (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) Saints cannot exist without a community (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) The 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 act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen (Stanley Hauerwas Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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