Miroslav Volf Quotes

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

Miroslav Volf

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• Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Car

• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Never
  • Politics

• The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Play
  • Things
  • Better

• America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • America
  • Eyes

• My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Director
  • Big
  • Platform

• If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Money
  • You
  • Looking

• Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Woman
  • Hip Hop
  • Complex

• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Running
  • Young

• To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • War
  • Death
  • Know

• I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Me
  • Walking
  • Bored

• Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Shakespeare

• The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Mistake
  • Thought

• In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Life
  • Time
  • Challenge

• The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Man
  • Health
  • Too Much

• When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Why
  • Father

• I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • World
  • Thinking

• The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate.

  

  Max Baucus
  • World
  • Political
  • Unique

• I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.

  

  John Howard
  • Challenge

• Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.

  

  Ben Parr
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, makes us long for heaven.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Long
  • Heaven

• Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

  

  Miroslav Volf
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Theology