Stanley Hauerwas Quotes
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
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Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
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What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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In respect to Iraq, Saddam is defying every one of us, ... He questions our resolve and is gambling we will lose nerve rather than enforce our will.
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We were due for this win. This team knew we needed a win, and every player needed to do something to contribute to the win.
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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.
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When I was training for the Chicago Marathon, I would eat a cup of cereal after an 18-mile long run, and then I'd have to get out the door with nothing but a granola bar in my hand. I can't change my busy schedule with my kids, but I can work harder to improve in this area. I think it's a part of training that most of us find difficult.
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I think to suggest that somehow Muslims aren't welcome in the USA, to suggest somehow that being a Muslim is incompatible with being western, unintentionally plays into the hand of Daesh and so-called Isis.
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So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
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How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
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Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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I feel like I would need to investigate and get some local tips. I think if I've learned anything from being on tour, it's that sometimes things you see in the guidebooks are stereotypically the best things to do, but there's no substitute for local knowledge on that stuff.
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...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
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Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived all winter, he had doubtless fed on slugs all the autumn. I could have kissed him on the spot.
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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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I'm not going to lead my show talking about my kids, but will I perhaps mention my five-year-old swimming? Yeah! I think listeners groove on that because frankly, it's genuine.
