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.
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we cannot get on top of what is happening, that we are stuck in the middle of it, in medias res, inter-esse, amazing and bewildered. We cannot soar over what is happening with philosophy's eagle-wings. What's happening has clipped our wings.
We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.
One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.
Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.
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