Top 115 Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

About Stanley Hauerwas

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

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

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

Stanley Hauerwas

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

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

Stanley Hauerwas

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

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

Stanley Hauerwas

One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war because we have an all-volunteer army. I would think the return to the draft would be an intervention that would require discussion that might be more helpful in terms of our ability to limit war.

Stanley Hauerwas

We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness.

We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness.

Stanley Hauerwas

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.

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.

Stanley Hauerwas

There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.

There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.

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.

Stanley Hauerwas

Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.

Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.

Stanley Hauerwas

I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.

I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.

Stanley Hauerwas

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