The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

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.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.

Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.

We are forever changed by the moments that we live but the moments we live cannot be changed.

To think you cannot fight fate is only an act of surrender.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

Is it truly being good if the only reason I behave well is so I can get more loot at Christmas? I mean, really, all I'm doing is saying I can be bribed.

Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.