"Naked need is the occasion for God's giving,……" — Miroslav Volf
"Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works."
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38 Quotes by Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf has 38 quotes on this site.
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The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
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Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we…
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We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of…
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Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is…
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Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely…
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Christ's indwelling presence has freed us from exclusive orientation toward ourselves and opened us up in two directions: toward God,…
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If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.
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Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a…
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There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no…
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If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us,…
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If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not…
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The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion…
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More Adorned Quotes
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one of 47 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is…
— Paul of the Cross
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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes…
— Plautus
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She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see…
— John M. Tobin, Jr.
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In naked beauty most adorned.
— John Milton
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In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially…
— Michael Fullan
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A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as…
— John Ray
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Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
— Ludovico Ariosto
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Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
— St. Jerome
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I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained…
— Ciaran Carson
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Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though…
— Johann Arndt
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