True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the power of creation and responsibility in shaping our lives and futures.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison's quote suggests that true revolutionaries possess the ability to shape their reality, much like a deity forms the world. It highlights our moral obligation to mold ourselves and future generations toward goodness, as the quality of our imaginings ultimately influences the world we leave behind.
In practice
During a motivational speech focused on personal responsibility and societal change.
I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?
Only children believe they're capable of everything.
All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.
If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?
Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
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