Hauerwas Beliefs Quotes

#1. The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

Eric Sevareid

#2. Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection.

Stanley Hauerwas

#3. Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. 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's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.

Stanley Hauerwas

#5. We disappear.
It happens to me frequently. You disappear? Yes and then come back.
Moments of death I call them.

Anne Carson

#6. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Eric Hoffer

#7. When I talk to young people who want to go to Broadway or whatever, I say, 'The highs are very high and the lows are very low and then there is a lot in between.'

Liz Callaway

#8. Satan exploits pain by making it the central focus of the man's (or woman's) thoughts and attitudes.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#9. A person doesn't die from this or that disease. He dies from his whole life.

Norman Fischer

#10. To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

Joe Biden

#11. Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is not a series of slogans that sum up our beliefs.

Stanley Hauerwas