Zachary Levi Emphasizes Forgiveness: ‘Jesus Was Saying to Love Your Enemy’
By Movieguide® Contributor
SHAZAM! star Zachary Levi recently encouraged people with an important message for today’s chaotic — and often-divided — times.
In a recent interview with Faithwire, the Grace Prize® nominee spoke about the importance of forgiveness and compassion.
“Jesus was saying to love your enemy and pray for your persecutor,” the actor said. “This is something that nobody seemingly does. And [Christ] talks about, to love those who already love you isn’t really love … love is to radically accept someone else exactly as they are, exactly where they’re from.”
Levi acknowledges that this doesn’t mean everyone has to agree on everything, but still encourages others to see everyone as “a child of God.”
“These are our enemies, these are our persecutors, but we don’t take the time to acknowledge that they are still also a child of God, that they are still a miracle that is across from us, whether that’s across the aisle, across the faith, across whatever you might find,” Levi explained.
He continued, “If we have any chance of making it into a future that is not just really sad and really full of hate and anger and fear, we’ve got to radically accept where people are in their lives.”
Watch Levi’s full interview here.
Movieguide® previously reported on Levi’s faith:
Star of Disney’s TANGLED, the upcoming THOR: THE DARK WORLD, and TV’s CHUCK, Zachary says, “My job on my set, I believe, is to first just love people and gain that trust with people where they know that I really do love them and care about their well-being, so that when they are running into problems, they will hopefully, at some point, come to me and ask me, ‘What is your peace all about? What is your comfort all about? Where do you get your love? Where do you get your talents?’ And I can turn to them and say without blinking, ‘Jesus Christ.’”
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