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.
Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.
It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
My divine sign indicates the future to me.
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