"Some of the worst violence in the world……" — Miroslav Volf
"Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common."
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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 Battlefields Quotes
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which…
— Carl Sagan
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Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields…
— Hassan al-Banna
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I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields,…
— Walt Whitman
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This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must…
— Randy Neugebauer
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The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect…
— Henry Waxman
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along…
— Charles Duhigg
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If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of…
— Nile Kinnick
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There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.
— Alfred M. Gray
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