Miroslav Volf Quotes

Quotes about:

• Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

  Miroslav Volf

  Community, Enemy, Humans

  Judith M. Gundry Volf, Miroslav Volf (1997). “A Spacious Heart: Essays on Identity and Belonging”, p.57, Gracewing Publishing

  43 Copy quote

• 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 be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

  Miroslav Volf

  Christian, Believe, Independent

  45 Copy quote

• To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.

  Miroslav Volf

  Two, Evil, Victory

  Miroslav Volf (2006). “The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World”, p.9, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  38 Copy quote

• Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

  Miroslav Volf

  Understanding, World, Mending

  44 Copy quote

• 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.

  Miroslav Volf

  Christian, Expression, And Love

  "Christians and Muslims". "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

  59 Copy quote

• The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

  Miroslav Volf

  Agreement, Law, Justice

  61 Copy quote

• If we don't learn to live with one another we will not live. We will either love each other as neighbors or we won't be. I believe that it is an insult to me as a Christian to say that I cannot love as neighbor somebody who thinks differently than I do.

  Miroslav Volf

  Christian, Believe, Thinking

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

  40 Copy quote

• 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 is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.

  Miroslav Volf

  Names, Suffering, Unseen

  43 Copy quote

• If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

  Miroslav Volf

  Christian, Love You, Enemy

  35 Copy quote

• 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 in faith, and toward our neighbor, to pass them on in love.

  Miroslav Volf

  Two, Christ, Neighbor

  Miroslav Volf (2009). “Free of Charge”, p.52, Zondervan

  22 Copy quote

• 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.

  Miroslav Volf

  Forgiving God, Differences, Justice

  37 Copy quote

• Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

  Miroslav Volf

  Prejudice, Untruthfulness, Injustice

  "Did 9/11 Make Us Morally 'Better'?" by Miroslav Volf, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

• Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God.

  Miroslav Volf

  Christian, Lonely, New Relationship

  31 Copy quote

• Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.

  Miroslav Volf

  Christmas, Meaningful, People

  33 Copy quote

• 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.

  Miroslav Volf

  Simple, Echoes, Attention

  9 Copy quote

• 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 that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.

  Miroslav Volf

  Doe, Social Behavior, Done

  "The Clumsy Embrace". Interview with Kevin D. Miller, www.christianitytoday.com. October 26, 1998.

  8 Copy quote

• Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.

  Miroslav Volf

  Promise, Possibility

  "Honor Everyone". Interview with Travis Reed, www.theworkofthepeople.com. 2012.

  4 Copy quote

• If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.

  Miroslav Volf

  Heart, Justice, Forgiving

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 2, 2004.

  8 Copy quote

• 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.

  Miroslav Volf

  Pressure, Exit, Reconcile

  16 Copy quote

• 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 will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics.

  Miroslav Volf

  America, Leader, Political

  "Muslim Radicalization Hearings: A Political Spectacle That Perpetuates Prejudice" by Miroslav Volf, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 9, 2011.

  31 Copy quote

• We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.

  Miroslav Volf

  God Love, Neighbor, Wells

  Miroslav Volf (2011). “A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good”, p.72, Brazos Press

  18 Copy quote

• 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.

  Miroslav Volf

  Space, Worship, Should

  4 Copy quote

• Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

  Miroslav Volf

  Miracle, Grace, Way

  7 Copy quote

• After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter.

  Miroslav Volf

  Prayer, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

  27 Copy quote

• Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

  Miroslav Volf

  Goal, Desire, Fonts

  11 Copy quote

Page 1 of 2

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin