Miroslav Volf Quotes

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• The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
• Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.
• 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…
• Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.
• Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence…
• Christ's indwelling presence has freed us from exclusive orientation toward ourselves and opened us up in two directions: toward God, to receive the good things…
• If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator…
• The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern…
• 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…
• Faith idles when character shrivels.
• For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.
• There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion…
• I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to…
• Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which…
• Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.
• Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

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