“The practice of non-violence requires a belief in divine vengeance.” LifeInspirationalGodChristianLivingForgiveness Author:Miroslav Volf
“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.” ThinkingNeedsBelievePersonsChristianOrderIndependentAgreeCommandBenevolent Author:Miroslav Volf
“I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.” WayBelieveDifferentChristianPrayingJewDifferent WaysWho God Is Author:Miroslav Volf
“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.” IfsThinkingBelieveChristianI BelieveNeighborInsultLove Each Other Author:Miroslav Volf
“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.” IfsChristianExpressionAnd LoveNeighborEvangelismExpressions Of Love Author:Miroslav Volf
“For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good suffers - not just the particular interests of Christians.” ChristianSufferingLeftSocialInterestCommonParticularResourcesValuableCommon Good Author:Miroslav Volf
“For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into Gods story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.” WorldNeedsStoriesHomeChristianArtistGamesMomDadDoctorsScientistExecutivesSpheresIdleGarbageCollectorsChristian FaithStay At HomeStay At Home Mom Author:Miroslav Volf
“Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.” BelieveChristianUnderstandingGroupsResponseJewTrinity Author:Miroslav Volf
“Christians believe that there will be a Judgment Day at the end. And it is my belief that on that day justice will be done and there will be a reconciliation between those who have profoundly injured one another takes place.” BelieveEndsDoneChristianBeliefJusticeJudgmentReconciliationInjuredJudgment Day Author:Miroslav Volf
“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.” HumansPersonsSelfChristianThreeHuman BeingsDivineLonelyCommunionDeitiesCommunion With GodNew RelationshipChristian GodFoursomes Author:Miroslav Volf
“If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.” IfsChristianChristianityEnemyLove YouChristian FaithLove Your Enemies Author:Miroslav Volf
