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Stanley Hauerwas Quote: “Ministers should be the most political of animals because, in contrast to much of what passes as politics in our time, those in the ministry cannot help but be about the formation of a people who can know they need one another to survive. To ask those in the ministry to take seriously your political responsibilities may well entail a radical reorientation of what those in the ministry do. That is particularly true if you believe as I do that we are living at the end of Christendom. Recovering.”

51. “Ministers should be the most political of animals because, in contrast to much of what passes as politics in our time, those in the ministry cannot help but be about the formation of a people who can know they need one another to survive. To ask those in the ministry to take seriously your political responsibilities may well entail a radical reorientation of what those in the ministry do. That is particularly true if you believe as I do that we are living at the end of Christendom. Recovering.”

— Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas Quote: “America is Rome, by which I mean we are a country that is so powerful that we can do what we want to do to other people and not fear the consequences. Americans are extremely frightened to live in a world in which we are so powerful, which is why we’ll go to any length to make ourselves feel safe. So America has gone to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. I fear your generation will harvest the result.”

52. “America is Rome, by which I mean we are a country that is so powerful that we can do what we want to do to other people and not fear the consequences. Americans are extremely frightened to live in a world in which we are so powerful, which is why we’ll go to any length to make ourselves feel safe. So America has gone to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. I fear your generation will harvest the result.”

— Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas Quote: “North American Christians are trained to believe that they are capable of reading the Bible without spiritual and moral transformation.”

53. “North American Christians are trained to believe that they are capable of reading the Bible without spiritual and moral transformation.”

— Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas Quote: “A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?”

54. “A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?”

— Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas Quote: “We believe that many Christians do not fully appreciate the odd way in which the church, when it is most faithful, goes about its business. We want to claim the church’s “oddness” as essential to its faithfulness.”

55. “We believe that many Christians do not fully appreciate the odd way in which the church, when it is most faithful, goes about its business. We want to claim the church’s “oddness” as essential to its faithfulness.”

— Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas Quote: “That which makes the church “radical” and forever “new” is not that the church tends to lean toward the left on most social issues, but rather that the church knows Jesus whereas the world does not. In the church’s view, the political left is not noticeably more interesting than the political right; both sides tend towards solutions that act as if the world has not ended and begun in Jesus.”

56. “That which makes the church “radical” and forever “new” is not that the church tends to lean toward the left on most social issues, but rather that the church knows Jesus whereas the world does not. In the church’s view, the political left is not noticeably more interesting than the political right; both sides tend towards solutions that act as if the world has not ended and begun in Jesus.”

— Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas Quote: “I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.”

57. “I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.”

— Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas Quote: “The church occupies the space he has made so that the world may see what a people look like who are not determined by the destructive fantasy that we can secure our lives through violence.”

58. “The church occupies the space he has made so that the world may see what a people look like who are not determined by the destructive fantasy that we can secure our lives through violence.”

— Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas Quote: “We are, quite rightly, not interested in the theoretical issue of suffering and evil; rather, we are torn apart by what is happening to real people, to those we know and love.”

59. “We are, quite rightly, not interested in the theoretical issue of suffering and evil; rather, we are torn apart by what is happening to real people, to those we know and love.”

— Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas Quote: “God knows why God has made some of us ecclesiastically homeless, but I hope and pray that our being so may be in service to Christian unity.”

60. “God knows why God has made some of us ecclesiastically homeless, but I hope and pray that our being so may be in service to Christian unity.”

— Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas Quote: “Transformation has to do with the way the walls separating us from others and from our deepest self begin to disappear. Between all of us fragile human beings stand walls built on loneliness and the absence of God, walls built on fear fear that becomes depression or a compulsion to prove that we are special.”

61. “Transformation has to do with the way the walls separating us from others and from our deepest self begin to disappear. Between all of us fragile human beings stand walls built on loneliness and the absence of God, walls built on fear fear that becomes depression or a compulsion to prove that we are special.”

— Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas Quote: “The church is in a buyer’s market that makes any attempt to form a disciplined congregational life very difficult.”

62. “The church is in a buyer’s market that makes any attempt to form a disciplined congregational life very difficult.”

— Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas Quote: “There are three activities that are absolutely vital in the creation of community. The first is eating together around the same table. The second is praying together. And the third is celebrating together.”

63. “There are three activities that are absolutely vital in the creation of community. The first is eating together around the same table. The second is praying together. And the third is celebrating together.”

— Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas Quote: “You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.”

64. “You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.”

— Stanley Hauerwas

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