Christian nonviolence is not a strategy to rid the world of violence. In short, Christians are not nonviolent because we believe our nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but, rather, because faithful followers of Christ in a world of war cannot imagine being anything else than nonviolent.
— Stanley Hauerwas, Walking with God in a Fragile World by James Langford, editor, Leroy S. Rouner, editor