As theologians, we must say more than we...... Quote by "Stanley Hauerwas"

As theologians, we must say more than we can be in the hope that others will make us more than we are. What is crucial is that we not write to justify the limits of our lives.
— Stanley Hauerwas Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

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When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.
— Stanley Hauerwas

Tags: christianity, no-sense, death, love

I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common experience, because states like the United States depend on the story of our wars for our ability to narrate our history as a unified story.
— Stanley Hauerwas

Tags: sacrifice, experience, war, history

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

Tags: like, your, you, life

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

Tags: hard, powerful, power, you

'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.
— Stanley Hauerwas

Tags: he, think, reality, war