Stanley Hauerwas World Quotations

For 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.

The 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.

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.

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.