The courageous have fears that cowards never know.
Stanley HauerwasSaints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.
Stanley HauerwasTags: church community ecclesiology
Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, "Let it be with me according to your word.
Stanley HauerwasTags: humility
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
Stanley HauerwasNever think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.
Stanley HauerwasTags: theology
A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?
Stanley HauerwasJesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.
Stanley HauerwasFor 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.
Stanley HauerwasTags: children
My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.
Stanley HauerwasTags: theology
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.
Stanley HauerwasTags: christianity church fellowship kingdom-of-god sunday-morning communion-of-saints
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