“ To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is not enough. Virtuous character matters more than moral knowledge. The… Miroslav Volf
“ Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community ofhumans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners. But no onecan be in the presence of the God of the crucified Messi… 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. Miroslav Volf
“ In his early text, somewhat cumbersomely titled 'Towards a Critique of Hegel's PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT,' the young Karl Marx famously noted that religion - the Christian faith, he meant primarily - is 'th… 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… Miroslav Volf
“ Engagement is not a matter of either speaking or doing; not a matter of either offering a compelling intellectual vision or embodying a set of alternative practices; not a matter of either merely maki… Miroslav Volf
“ 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… 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
“ In the minds of most people, Christianity is supposed to be about love of God and neighbor (even though it is true that at the heart of Christianity does not lie human love at all, but God’s love for… Miroslav Volf
“ Here is what we do as worshipers of a Santa Claus God: We embrace the conviction that God is an infinitely generous source of all good, but conveniently forget that we were created in God’s image to b… Miroslav Volf
“ All sufferers can find comfort in the solidarity of the Crucified; but only those who struggle against evil by following the example of the Crucified will discover him at their side. To claim the comf… Miroslav Volf
“ This is a book about worshiping the true God and letting the true God act in us. It tells us as plainly as possible that the true God is a God who cannot stop giving and forgiving, and that our knowle… Miroslav Volf
“ Sin is here the kind of purity that wants the world cleansed of the other rather than the heart cleansed of the evil that drives people out by calling those who are clean unclean and refusing to help… 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
“ 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 s… Miroslav Volf
“ Slowly and imperceptibly, the one true God begins acquiring the features of the gods of this world. For instance, our God simply gratifies our desires rather than reshaping them in accordance with the… Miroslav Volf
“ We know it is good to receive, and we have been blessed by receiving not only as children, but also as adults. Yet Jesus taught that it is more blessed to give than to receive (Acts 20:35), and part o… Miroslav Volf
“ The true God gives so we can become joyful givers and not just self-absorbed receivers. Miroslav Volf
