Stanley Hauerwas Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.”

“The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated.”

“The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our spiritual condition.”

“To know God's name is to know God.”

“Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.”

“Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.”

“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.”

“By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed could not be credible. So I became a philosophy major at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.”

“Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is not a series of slogans that sum up our beliefs.”

“Christians need jobs just like anybody else, but the years you spend as an undergraduate are like everything else in your life. They're not yours to do with as you please. They're Christ's.”