“A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that the...” — Stanley Hauerwas Quote

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

“Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian.”

“'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.”

“I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.”

“What especially moved him was the corpse of a child of twelve or thirteen. He felt something like envy as he looked at it, recalling such expression as “Those whom the gods love die young.” Both his sister and his half-brother had lost their houses to fire. His sister’s husband, though, was on a suspended sentence for perjury.”