Miroslav Volf Quotes
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.
Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.
Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.
For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.
We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.
In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.
Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.
I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.
Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God’s life in us.
Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.
Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense
Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.
We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered) slip out of our minds!
For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good suffers - not just the particular interests of Christians.
There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.
