Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.

No wonder modern humanity, even as it loudly proclaims its freedom and power to choose, is really an impotent herd drive this way and that, paralyzed by the disconnectedness of it all. Its just one damn thing after another.

Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that theyre not trying to escape.

Jesus is the politics of the new age He is about the establishment of a kingdom He is the one who has created a new time that gives us the time not only to care for the poor but to be poor. Jesus is the one who makes it possible to be nonviolent in a violent world.

I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be saved on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it.

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.

The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islams perspective is the imposition on them of Christian practice. Islam doesnt really have a place for state. They are a universalistic faith like Christianity, but they think there is no country that bounds Islam.

I am just postmodern enough not to trust postmodern as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.

Jesus is the politics of the new age He is about the establishment of a kingdom He is the one who has created a new time that gives us the time not only to care for the poor but to be poor. Jesus is the one who makes it possible to be nonviolent in a violent world.

“The cross is not a sign of the churchs quiet, suffering submission to the powers-that-be, but rather the churchs revolutionary participation in the victory of Christ over those powers. The cross is not a symbol for general human suffering and oppression. Rather, the cross is a sign of what happens when one takes Gods account of reality more seriously than Caesars. The cross stands as Gods (and our) eternal no to the powers of death, as well as Gods eternal yes to humanity, Gods remarkable determination not to leave us to our own devices.”