Miroslav Volf Quotes

Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

But hey, if that’s too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything

Most people have settled for a wimpy grace. It's something that doesn't change their lives. There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

Some people, when they use the word 'salvation', understand nothing more by it than deliverance from hell and admittance into heaven. Now, that is not salvation: those two things are the effects of salvation.

Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

Christians are not patched-up sinners, they are new creations.

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man.

There can always be new beginnings... even for people like us.

The evidence of Jesus Christ is lives changed.

God’s wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

I ain't got no money - But I'm rich on personality

People say it takes 10 years to change your life. It's bullshit. It takes a moment, a second. But it may take you 10 years to get to the point of finally saying, "Enough."