Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas

[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.

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Lying

A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?

Order

People

Prayer

Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it’s not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God. It is a political alternative to the way the world is constituted. That’s a very important part of the story that has been lost to accounts of salvation that are centered in the individual. But without an understanding that salvation is the reign of God, the need for the church to mediate salvation makes no sense at all.

Church

Political

Understanding

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

Christian

Dying

Training

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

Church Growth

Strategy

Way

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

Citizens

Creation

Empowering

Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.

Christian

Church

People

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.

Children

Christian

World

From my perspective, ‘postmodernism’ merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

Interesting

Names

Order

From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical “I gotcha!” It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

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Perspective

Suicide

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Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas

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

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

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.

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.

From my perspective, ‘postmodernism’ merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical “I gotcha!” It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

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