Walter Wink Quotes

• The gift our enemy may be able to bring us: to see aspects of ourselves that we cannot discover any other way than through our enemies. Our friends seldom tell us these things; they are our friends precisely because they are able to overlook or ignore this part of us. The enemy is thus not merely a hurdle to be leaped on the way to God. The enemy can be the way to God. We cannot come to terms with our shadow except through our enemies.

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  Enemy, Shadow, May

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• History belongs to the intercessors, who believe the future into being. If this is so, then intercession, far from being an escape from action, is a means of focusing for action and of creating action. By means of our intercessions we veritably cast fire upon the earth and trumpet the future into being.

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  Believe, Mean, Fire

  Walter Wink (2010). “The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium”, p.187, Harmony

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• Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed.

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  Evil, Enemy, Oppressors

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• ...Jesus did not advocate non-violence merely as a technique for outwitting the enemy, but as a just means of opposing the enemy in such a way as to hold open the possibility of the enemy's becoming just as well. Both sides must win. We are summoned to pray for our enemies' transformation, and to respond to ill-treatment with a love that not only is godly but also, I am convinced, can only be found in God.

  Walter Wink

  Jesus, Mean, Godly

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• History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

  Walter Wink

  Prayer, Believe, Future

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• Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present.

  Walter Wink

  Prayer, Air, Atmosphere

  Walter Wink (2010). “The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium”, p.185, Harmony

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• The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.

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  Belief, Obstacles, Excuse

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• A menudo se ha malinterpretado el misticismo como el intento de escapar de este mundo simple y fenoménico hacia una existencia más pura en el cielo del más allá. Esto no es misticismo, sino gnosticismo. El misticismo bíblico es el intento de salir de "este mundo" hacia una realidad alternativa que impregna el viejo orden. Su objetivo es deshacerse de la mentalidad que dice que "la avaricia es buena", "el egoísmo es normal" y "matar es necesario". El misticismo en términos bíblicos no es escapismo, como muchos lo han caricaturizado, sino una lucha por la ética y el cambio social.

  Walter Wink

  Biblical, Fighting, Simple

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• En 1989, trece naciones en las que vivían 1.695.000 personas experimentaron revoluciones no violentas que triunfaron más allá de las expectativas más descabelladas . . . Si sumamos todos los países afectados por acciones no violentas importantes en nuestro siglo (Filipinas, Sudáfrica . la cifra asciende a 3.337.400.000, ¡un asombroso 65% de la humanidad! Todo ello a pesar de la afirmación, repetida hasta la saciedad, de que la no violencia no funciona en el mundo "real".

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  Country, Peace, Real

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• To worship is to remember Who owns the house.

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  House, Remember, Worship

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• The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.

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  Heart, Understanding, Conflict

  Walter Wink (2010). “The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium”, p.121, Harmony

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• Killing Jesus was like trying to destroy a dandelion seed-head by blowing on it

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  Jesus, Trying, Dandelions

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• never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you

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  Use, Opponents, Want

  Walter Wink, Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) (1987). “Violence and nonviolence in South Africa: Jesus' third way”

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• History belongs to the intercessors

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  Intercesores

  Walter Wink (2010). “The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium”, p.185, Harmony

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• The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.

  Walter Wink

  Ignorant, Tragedy, Church

  "Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination". Book by Walter Wink (pp. 254-256), 1992.

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