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I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.

Stanley Hauerwas

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Stanley Hauerwas
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 24
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