Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.
Stanley HauerwasI confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
Stanley HauerwasI am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.
Stanley HauerwasOur 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 HauerwasChristians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.
Stanley HauerwasThe most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never achieve through social coercion or governmental action. We serve the world by showing it something that it is not, namely, a place where God is forming a family out of strangers.
Stanley Hauerwas