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In a world of deep injustice and violence, a people exists that thinks some can be given time to study. We need you to take seriously the calling that is yours by virtue of going to college.
- Stanley Hauerwas
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#People
#Time
#Violence
#World
My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Believe
#Live
#Strategy
#War
#World
Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Experience
#God
#Life
#Patience
#Time
I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Doubt
#Experience
#Necessary
#Someone
Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Community
#Nonviolence
#Violence
#World
In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.
- Stanley Hauerwas
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#Back
#Land
#War
#World
Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.
- Stanley Hauerwas
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#Stand
#Success
#Tradition
#Want
The idea is that Jesus overcame death through the Resurrection. What that does is fail to appreciate the fact that the resurrected Christ is the crucified Christ. It's not like, 'Oh, that was just a mistake, now it's over.' Jesus continues to suffer from our sins.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Death
#Mistake
#Resurrection
#Through
Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Civil
#Creation
#Empower
#Good
#Religion
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Death
#Fear
#Living
#Reality
#Speech
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.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Everything
#Life
#Need
#Your
#Yours
Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Exercise
#How
#Learning
#Myself
#Reading
Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#College
#Direction
#Excess
#Life
#Tends
The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.
- Stanley Hauerwas
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#Policy
#Power
#Powerful
#Problem
The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Parents
#Possible
#Student
#Together
I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Church
#Family
#Hill
#Holy
#I Am
God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Before
#Dead
#Egypt
#God
#Israel
I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Books
#Friends
#Lived
#Make
#Who
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
#Clear
#I Am
#Life
#Me
#Mean
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Act
#America
#Nation
#Necessary
#Sense
#War
The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Desire
#Greed
#Money
#More
#Rich
Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Belief
#Death
#Hope
#Life
#Possible
'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Accomplished
#Cry
#Done
#Finished
#Work
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
#Everyone
#Love
#Us
#Why
#Yourself
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Death
#Escape
#Martyr
#Never
#Trying
#Way
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.
- Stanley Hauerwas
#Food
#Friendship
#Loneliness
#May
#Money
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