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Miroslav Volf Quotes

Croatian - Theologian | September 25, 1956 -

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

Work Marriage Business People Moral

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.

Forgiveness Heart Justice Me Saying

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.

God Behavior New Done Follow Well

There are no unforgivable sins.

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.

Christian Understanding Believing

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 God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.

Work Business God Faith World Game

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

World Understanding Only Theology

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

Good Happy Grow Person Relationships

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.

Love Think Person Independent Need

Out of 3,500 students in my high school, I was the only openly professing Christian kid. Obviously there were challenges. 'Only old and stupid people believe.'

School People Challenges Stupid High

Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.

Today People World Violence Living

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

Good God Giving Clean Need Naked

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