Stanley Hauerwas Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Stanley Hauerwas quotes and sayings page 5 (theologian). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 115 we have.
“The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.”
“The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me.”
“Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.”
“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.”
“The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.”
“I must begin by telling you that I do not like to preach on Reformation Sunday. Actually, I have to put it more strongly than that. I do not like Reformation Sunday, period.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.”
“Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.”
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