Stanley Hauerwas Quotes

It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.

Stanley Hauerwas

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• I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.

  

  Fleur East
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Want

• No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Lucky
  • Really
  • Superhero

• Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Always
  • Trials

• England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Power
  • America
  • True

• Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fate
  • Existence
  • Nothing

• I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Think
  • Know
  • Poetry

• I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Think
  • Hit
  • Gestures

• It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Giving
  • Woman
  • Stand

• I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Twice
  • Arrested
  • Falsely

• Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Little
  • Come
  • Enlightenment

• When I was growing up, I was told you could be anything you want to be, but I didn't really believe that because you couldn't be president. Like, I knew that; we never had a black president.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Black

• The Indian audience is getting exposed to world cinema and realising the power of unique plots and distinct characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • World
  • Power
  • Unique

• The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Luck

• The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

  

  Feist
  • Music
  • Joy
  • Positive

• Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light

• Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi

• A wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Children
  • Happy

• I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.

  

  Alan Lightman
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• Remember, the body does gradually renew itself constantly. Do not look upon the conditions which have existed as not being to be eradicated from the system. Hold to that KNOWLEDGE- and don't think of it as just therapy-that the body CAN, the body DOES, renew itself!

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Remember
  • Knowledge

• What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Age
  • Horse
  • Listen

• I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • World
  • Work

• It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Jesus