Stanley Hauerwas

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

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These are some quotes by American author Stanley Hauerwas Theologian, who was born on July 24, 1940.

Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of those who accepted the terms of battle? War is a sacrificial system that creates its own justification.

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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.

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'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.

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