Quotes from 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.

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.

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.

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

The practice of non-violence requires a belief in divine vengeance.

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.

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

Faith idles when character shrivels.

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.

Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.

I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture - which I certainly would want to affirm - and more on displaying how biblical texts can shape lives in salutary ways, how they are fruitful texts, how they are texts one can live according to.

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.