Top 115 Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.

I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.

Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?

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

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

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