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 HauerwasRead
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the value of patience as a virtue inherent to humans, especially in a world that often prioritizes immediacy.
Stanley Hauerwas articulates that the season of Advent symbolizes a deep-rooted patience that is integral to our identity as individuals shaped by divine promise. In contrast to a culture rife with impatience, this perspective encourages embracing the waiting and anticipation that come with faith, suggesting that true fulfillment arises from trusting in the promise of what is to come.
Themes
PatiencePromiseFaithWaitingImpatience
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be shared during a meditation session about the virtues of patience in our fast-paced lives.
More from Stanley Hauerwas
All quotes βMy way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent.
Stanley HauerwasRead
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.
Stanley HauerwasRead
To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.
Stanley HauerwasRead
The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never achieve through social coercion or governmental action. We serve the world by showing it something that it is not, namely, a place where God is forming a family out of strangers.
Stanley HauerwasRead
Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.
Stanley HauerwasRead
Similar quotes
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
Aldous HuxleyRead
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
Christopher HitchensRead
Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.
Morihei UeshibaRead
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.
Mahatma GandhiRead
I think that first-person narration is very characteristic of contemporary optics, in which the individual performs the role of subjective center of the world.
Olga TokarczukRead
One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
Michel De MontaigneRead