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“We can no more learn what it means to be a Christian simply by attending to Scripture than we can learn to be Texan by reading about the history of Texas. Rather, we learn that story, like the way we learn the story of Texas, by caring for the tombstones of the saints. It is from them, as we see what the story of Jesus has done to their own stories, that we begin to understand what that story requires and means”
— Sep 04, 2023 01:18PM
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John Anders
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“Prior to the question of the kind of choices we must make is the question of the kind of person we should be. Therefore, virtue is prior to decision, character to choice.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Christian Existence Today
— Nov 08, 2024 07:32PM
― Stanley Hauerwas, Christian Existence Today
John Anders
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“The most important political service the church does for any society is to be a community capable of developing people of virtue.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Christian Existence Today, p. 13
— Aug 31, 2023 06:23PM
― Stanley Hauerwas, Christian Existence Today, p. 13
