Quotes related to Romans 12:18
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
— Virginia Woolf
Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.
— Pope Francis
Violence and war lead only to death.
— Pope Francis
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
— Philip Yancey
the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree. We Christians are called to use the "weapons of grace," which means treating even our opponents with love and respect.
— Philip Yancey
I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace.
— Philip Yancey
Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce. For this reason modern democracy grew out of Christian soil.
— Philip Yancey
Others of us, rightly concerned about issues in a modern "culture war," neglect the church's mission as a haven of grace in this world of ungrace.
— Philip Yancey
Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce.
— Philip Yancey
Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce. For this reason modern democracy grew out of Christian soil. We must exercise the skill of ethical surgeons in deciding which moral principles apply to society at large and how best to apply them.
— Philip Yancey
The church has allowed itself to get so swept up in political issues that it plays by the rules of adversarial power. In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square. Somehow the paramount command to love—even to love our enemies—gets lost.
— Philip Yancey
The issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree.
— Philip Yancey