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.
Miroslav VolfRead
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.
Interpretation
Worship is an all-encompassing practice that should be integrated into all aspects of life.
Miroslav Volf's quote emphasizes that worship is not confined to specific locations, times, or activities; rather, it should permeate every part of a person's existence. This perspective suggests that worship can be expressed continuously and in various forms, highlighting its importance in everyday life and the deep connection between spirituality and daily experiences.
In practice
During a community gathering, this quote can inspire people to see their actions as forms of worship.
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.
Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
Love properly understood is Godβthe font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.
If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.
To affirm that God is God is to want to live in a particular way.
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.
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.
I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst, we may be going through the early stages of adolescence, and everyone remembers what that is like.
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