Stanley Hauerwas Quotes

I do not put much stock in "believing in God." The grammar of "belief" invites a far too rationalistic account of what it means to be a Christian. "Belief" implies propositions about which you get to make up your mind before you know the work they are meant to do.

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.

When you are trying to change the questions, you have to realize that many people are quite resistant to such a change. They like the answers they have.

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

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.