Stanley Hauerwas Quotes

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

Stanley Hauerwas

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• A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • True
  • Man

• I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Great
  • Saint
  • Claim

• My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Mom

• I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Girl

• Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.

  

  Martin Chemnitz
  • True
  • Scripture

• President Benson's mighty influence is felt in many ways. His timely and inspired counsel to read the precious Book of Mormon brought an added appreciation of this sacred scripture to all who followed his direction.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Book
  • Inspired
  • Appreciation

• We are not doomed to an ultimate conflict with no hope of resolution. The message of the Scripture is one of victory - full, final and ultimate victory. It is not our doom that is certain, but Satan's. His head has been crushed by the heel of Christ, who is the Alpha and Omega.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Hope
  • Victory
  • Christ

• The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it’s meant also to be sung.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Truth
  • Scripture
  • Meant

• Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Earth
  • Trust
  • Jesus

• When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in your life. And you cannot imitate the nature of Jesus-it is either in you or it is not. A personal insult becomes an opportunity for a saint to reveal the incredible sweetness of the Lord Jesus.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Nature

• The central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • God
  • Father
  • Faith

• To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • World
  • God
  • May

• The infallibility and inerrancy of biblical teaching does not, however, guarantee the infallibility and inerrancy of any interpretation or interpreter of that teaching; nor does the recognition of its qualities as the Word of God in any way prejudge the issue as to what Scripture does, in fact, assert. This can be determined only by careful Bible study.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Study
  • Bible

• When we change, the world changes. The key to all change is in our inner transformation- a change of our hearts and minds. This is human revolution. We all have the power to change. When we realize this truth, we can bring forth that power anywhere, anytime, and in any situation.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Keys

• Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • High
  • Exercise
  • Results

• The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit.

  

  G. Campbell Morgan
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• Moderation is the key so I work certain amout of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Certain

• I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.

  

  Ai-jen Poo
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Live

• Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

  

  Wayne Grudem
  • Scripture
  • Doctrine
  • Isolation

• Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis.

  

  George Will
  • Chance
  • Republican
  • November

• I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each day a fresh holocaust, yet, as far as I can see, our moral being is untouched.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Time
  • Death
  • Effort

• In 2003, my mom actually gave me a call, which is funny because she works at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, and let me know that there's a cool competition with robots across the desert. And I thought this was definitely something I wanted to be a part of. This was the first DARPA Grand Challenge.

  

  Anthony Levandowski
  • She
  • Funny
  • Mom

• The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Scripture
  • Keys
  • Saint