Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.
Stanley HauerwasChristianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.
Stanley HauerwasCivil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
Stanley HauerwasIf I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.
Stanley Hauerwas