The Peaceable Kingdom Quotes

“The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer In Christian Ethics

“Our joy is the simple willingness to live with the assurance of God’s redemption. … joy is the disposition that comes from our readiness always to be surprised; or put even more strongly, joy is the disposition that comes from our realization that we can trust in surprises for the sustaining of our lives.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer In Christian Ethics

“in order to know and worship God rightly we must have our desires transformed. They must be transformed—we must be trained to desire rightly—because, bent by sin, we have little sense of what it is that we should rightly want.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics