"The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be……" — Miroslav Volf
"The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does."
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Miroslav Volf
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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 Condemn Quotes
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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
— Georges Bernanos
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Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking…
— David Cameron
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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
— Albert Camus
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If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as…
— Richard Carmona
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our…
— Jimmy Carter
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We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize…
— Deepak Chopra
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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before…
— Huldrych Zwingli
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I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of…
— Gene Roddenberry
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
— Lionel Trilling
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which…
— Emile Durkheim
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Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.
— Georg Groddeck
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