A unique solution to evil

I'm not familiar with the book or author, but I really like this quote from the latest issue of Mission Frontiers magazine.

There will always be a cross somewhere in the midst of the Christian solution to evil, a cross of pain involved in not returning blow for blow; a cross of the natural, human bitterness felt in the experience of hatred and returning love in its place, of receiving evil and doing good; a cross reflected in the near impossibility of counting oneself blessed in the midst of persecution, or of hungering and thirsting for justice, or in being merciful and peacemakers in a world which understands neither. Between us and fulfillment, between us and everlasting justice, between us and salvation of this suffering world, there will always stand the paradox of the cross, a cross not for others, but for us. "The Jews are looking for miracles and the pagans for wisdom. And here we are preaching a crucified Christ, to the Jews an obstacle they cannot get over, to the pagans madness" (1 Cor. 1:22-23).

There is, on the one hand, a moral, human, political solution to evil in the world. And there is a Christian solution. The gospel, which contains the latter, will always be compromised by identifying it with the former.

Vincent J. Donovan, Christianity Rediscovered

Could it be we gravitate to political solutions to evil because they let us off the hook when it comes to the teachings of the New Testament? Passages like Luke 6:35 and Romans 12:21 may not apply to nation-states, but they very clearly apply to Christian disciples.