Miroslav Volf Quotes

It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor.

If someone is capable of loving his partner without restrictions, unconditionally, then he is manifesting the love of God. If the love of God becomes manifest, he will love his neighbor. If he loves his neighbor, he will love himself. If he loves himself, then everything returns to its proper place.

You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you.

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.

Only you can give yourself the love you need and deserve.

When you feel fulfilled, you feel happy - You feel love. When it comes to love, you always come first. If you don't love yourself, you can't truly love anyone else, either. I always tell myself to stay in love.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.

If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.

It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way to love God.

To Love is to reach God.

The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

I have been able to be just a good light to people and just share His love. I wake up every day and [try to] honor God in everything that I do and I may fall short sometimes, but all I want to do is love Him.

The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!

The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.

You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don't love yourself.

At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.

Everyone is always looking for their beloved. Well, why can't you be your own beloved? Fall in love with yourself.

If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We have to love first, and I don't know how. But I need it, how I need it.

It is not enough for us to say: I love God, but I do not love my neighbour. St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbour. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbour whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live.