Miroslav Volf Quotes

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

Miroslav Volf
Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

Miroslav Volf
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
God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love.

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.

Miroslav Volf
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
Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.

Miroslav Volf
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