Miroslav Volf Quotes

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.

We're all people. We all need to just try and find a way to love each other and accept each other and try and make the world a better place.

Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

It gets to be a problem when I decide one position should be the law for everybody. In public life, we [people] have to find a way to live together even though we disagree - and some things we will never agree on. But we've got to leave this I'm-going-to-kill-you-because-you-don't-believe-what-I-believe attitude behind.

I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other's humanity and learning to love each other, even if we look different or worship differently or live differently.

Love your fellow, and not just those who agree with you.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

We have lived for thousands of years together, Muslims and Christians; we are part of the same society.

Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

You can be for someone without being against someone else.

We're all different. That's what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on with each other. It's not up to me to judge anybody.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.