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The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated as what works (it usually does not), but advocated because this is the way God is - God is

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated as what works (it usually does not), but advocated because this is the way God is - God is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. This is not a stratagem for getting what we want but the only manner of life available, now that, in Jesus, we have seen what God wants. We seek reconciliation with the neighbor, not because we feel so much better afterward, but because reconciliation is what God is doing in the world through Christ.

Stanley Hauerwas
Jesus, Selfish, Ungrateful

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
Jesus, Age, Citizens
Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.267, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

Stanley Hauerwas
Jesus, Bullshit, Lord

I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.

Stanley Hauerwas
Jesus, Jobs, Doe
Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.73, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by God’s patience, to challenge the world’s impatient violence by cross and resurrection.

Stanley Hauerwas
Jesus, Believe, People
Stanley Hauerwas (2007). “Matthew (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)”, p.37, Brazos Press

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