[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would transform the world into their image.
Stanley HauerwasTo 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 HauerwasThe basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
Stanley HauerwasThe narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.
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