If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.
Miroslav VolfThere 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.
Miroslav VolfIf we don't learn to live with one another we will not live. We will either love each other as neighbors or we won't be. I believe that it is an insult to me as a Christian to say that I cannot love as neighbor somebody who thinks differently than I do.
Miroslav VolfThe significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.
Miroslav Volf