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.

Christians believe that there will be a Judgment Day at the end. And it is my belief that on that day justice will be done and there will be a reconciliation between those who have profoundly injured one another takes place.

Muslims and Christians can work together to depose dictators and assert the power of the people. We've seen it happen on the Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 revolution in Egypt, with devout Muslims and Coptic Christians protesting side by side.

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.

If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.

If somebody postulates the existence of more than one god, I would have to say we don't worship the same god. If somebody says that God is basically one with the world, I would also have to say we don't worship the same god.

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.

God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love.

We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

Christianity and Islam are today the most numerous and fastest growing religions globally. Together they encompass more than half of humanity. Consequence: both are here to stay.

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.

There are no unforgivable sins.