Stanley Hauerwas Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated as what works (it usually does not), but advocated because this is the way God is - God is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. This is not a stratagem for getting what we want but the only manner of life available, now that, in Jesus, we have seen what God wants. We seek reconciliation with the neighbor, not because we feel so much better afterward, but because reconciliation is what God is doing in the world through Christ.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Jesus, Selfish, Ungrateful

• I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Jesus, Jobs, Doe

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.73, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Commitment, Roles, May

• Our 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 Hauerwas

  Sentimental, Belief, Christ

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