We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

- Stanley Hauerwas

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 wo…

- Stanley Hauerwas

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

- Stanley Hauerwas

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

- Stanley Hauerwas

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

- Stanley Hauerwas

Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is…

- Stanley Hauerwas

Christianity 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'…

- Stanley Hauerwas

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.

- Stanley Hauerwas

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 t…

- Stanley Hauerwas