Hauerwas Beliefs Quotes & Sayings

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

More than just romantic comedy, I like romances: drama romance, romance comedy, comedy romance. I also go to the movies to escape. There are times when you go to learn, when you go to be moved, you go to be transported, and there are really times when you go to escape. And I personally escape more happily into a romance than I do violent movies. — Uma Thurman

Doctors are fantastic, but they err on the side of caution. But you can push yourself. You're not going to die from pain. — Tony McCoy

We got a lot of letters of people who didn't like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation - I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk. — Vera Wang

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

So many people shall regret three great things tomorrow; things they did, things they did not do and things they were yet to do! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Life-change list Number Five: Don't forget the care and feeding of friends. — Kaira Rouda

In part, this will happen simply because people who pray the Psalms will be worshiping the God who made them, and one of the basic spiritual laws is that you become like what you worship. More particularly, however, it will happen because people who pray the Psalms will be learning (whether they necessarily think it out like this or not) to live in God's time as well as in their own, in God's space as well as in their own, and even in and as God's "matter" - the stuff of which we're made - as well as in and as our own. The — N. T. Wright

I'm sorry. I behaved like a jerk.
You did.
Is that forgiveness?
I'm not sure. I think it's an acknowledgment of imperfection. And an admission that I believe time is too short to hold a grudge. — Janet Mullany

Bough of a tree to the rain ... he turns the phrase over in his mouth as if it were fine wine, trying to guess its vintage, realizing somewhat indifferently that it is beyond him. — Laszlo Krasznahorkai

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

It isn't about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It's about being together. Love is a choice you make. — Kristin Hannah

The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else. — Richard Engel

Satellites record data in different parts of the light spectrum that we can't see. And it's that information that allows satellites to be so powerful in terms of looking at things like vegetation health, finding different kinds of geology that may indicate an oil deposit or some kind of mineralogical deposit that can be mined. — Sarah Parcak

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old. — George Will

She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment — Daphne Du Maurier

Old saws have no teeth. — Cynthia Ozick