KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Miroslav Volf Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Miroslav Volf

Showing 1-10 of 27 Quotes by Miroslav Volf

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.

~Miroslav Volf

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Miroslav Volf

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Miroslav Volf

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.'

~Miroslav Volf

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Miroslav Volf

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Miroslav Volf

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Miroslav Volf

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.

~Miroslav Volf

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

~Miroslav Volf

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Croatian

Type: Theologian

Born: September 25th, 1956

Links

Find Miroslav Volf on Amazon

Related Authors

Thomas Aquinas
William Barclay
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
John Calvin
Ernest Holmes
Reinhold Niebuhr
Albert Schweitzer
Paul Tillich

Popular Authors

Noam Chomsky Noel Coward Stephen King Abraham Lincoln Walter Scott Ben Shapiro Socrates Jim Valvano

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1938 - Kofi Annan

1947 - Robert Kiyosaki

1732 - David Rittenhouse

1859 - Edmund Husserl

1869 - Harvey Cushing

1888 - Dennis Chavez

1892 - Mary Pickford

1896 - E. Y. Harburg

1903 - Ilka Chase

1911 - Emil Cioran

Birthdays on April 8th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Art Brainy Cool Death Easter Government Mom Trust