The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of having a mindset of abundance rather than scarcity.
Walter Brueggemann's quote suggests that the ability to shape a prosperous future does not belong to those who see the world as limited and filled with scarcity. Instead, it is those who have faith in the abundance provided by a higher power who will wield true influence and creativity in forging better possibilities for themselves and others.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire creativity in the workplace.
People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.
The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.
And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.
Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
Stillness is the altar of spirit.
Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside.
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
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