Redeemer's famous quote: \"The opposite of love is indifference.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference.\" [1<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
by Elie Wiesel<\/a><\/strong><\/u><\/strong> in his 1986 interview with U.S. News & World Report<\/em> and his subsequent Nobel Peace Prize lecture: [1<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The generation of indifference comes from the generation of niceness (as in foolishness).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I look at the academic pridefuls, when I see indifference in their characters, I search and find the foolish zeal of those who brought them up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Update 2026-10-10<\/strong>: While Tim Keller <\/strong>got this idea from Elie Wiesel<\/strong>, Stephen Tong <\/strong>got similar idea from Soren Kierkegaard<\/strong>, explicitly addressing how indifference <\/strong>completely invalidates love, and how ignoring someone is a devastating act. Kierkegaard heavily unpacked the mechanics of indifference in his 1847 masterpiece on Christian ethics, [Works of Love<\/em>]: [1<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like Kierkegaard, Keller used this understanding to show that an indifferent Christian is a psychological and spiritual impossibility; Tong used this idea to ignore his slanderers: \u4e3b\u8036\u7a4c\u6210\u4e86\u6232\u666f\u88ab\u773e\u4eba\u8b4f\u8a9a\u5c31\u9084\u53e3\uff0c\u53e3\u51fa\u5147\u5687\u7684\u8a71\u55ce❓\u5510\u7267\u5e2b\u70ba\u4f55\u4e0d\u56de\u61c9\u4eba\u4f86\u7684\u8fb1\u7f75\u7f9e\u8fb1\u5462❓\uff08\u5e0c\u4f2f\u4f86\u66f8\u8981\u7406\u554f\u7b54 \u7b2c1217\u554f\uff09<\/p>\n\n\n\n