Christian Existence Today Quotes

“While we may be able to pray without being prostrate, I think prayer as an institution of the church could not longer be sustained without a people who have first learned to kneel. If one wants to learn to pray, one had better know how to bend the body. Learning the gesture and posture of prayer is inseparable from learning to pray. Indeed, the gestures are prayer.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Christian Existence Today: Essays on Church, World, and Living in Between