Stanley Hauerwas Death Quotations

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die.

The idea is that Jesus overcame death through the Resurrection. What that does is fail to appreciate the fact that the resurrected Christ is the crucified Christ. It's not like, 'Oh, that was just a mistake, now it's over.' Jesus continues to suffer from our sins.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.