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Evil has insinuated itself into our very souls and rules over us from the very citadel erected to guard us against it.
— Miroslav Volf
God acts differently. God continues to give, refusing to make giving dependent on our receiving things rightly.
— Miroslav Volf
Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.
— 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
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
— Miroslav Volf
By embracing the "outcast," Jesus underscored the "sinfulness" of the persons and systems that cast them out.
— Miroslav Volf
In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.
— Miroslav Volf
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
Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.
— Miroslav Volf
Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.
— Miroslav Volf
To give to God is to take from God's right hand and put that very thing back into God's left hand.
— Miroslav Volf
God's gifts aim at making us into generous givers, not just fortunate receivers. God gives so that we, in human measure, can be givers too.
— 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.
— Miroslav Volf
If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.
— Miroslav Volf
Love properly understood is God - the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.
— Miroslav Volf
Faith is the way we as receivers relate appropriately to God as the giver. It is empty hands held open for God to fill.
— Miroslav Volf
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
We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered) slip out of our minds!
— Miroslav Volf
For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.
— Miroslav Volf
Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.
— 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
The true God gives so we can become joyful givers and not just self-absorbed receivers.
— Miroslav Volf
To remember a wrongdoing is to struggle against it.
— Miroslav Volf
G. K. Chesterton famously quipped that "those who marry the spirit of the age will find themselves widows in the next.
— Miroslav Volf
Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense
— Miroslav Volf
There are no unforgivable sins.
— Miroslav Volf
