Goat Mindset Quotes

Believing in no ultimate Judge who will separate the sheep from the goats, they take it upon themselves to mete out perfect justice. They believe that every moral grievance must be immediately redressed until we have perfected society. The tens of millions of people starved to death, executed, imprisoned, and aborted under communism testify to the harsh reality of this kind of human judgment. Such utopian visions have no basis for grace or mercy. Despite the well-known track record of horrors produced by this kind of godless mindset, we are seeing it return in the form of a redefined “justice” that goes by the name “social justice.” As we will see, it isn’t just at all.

The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, far from providing a template for an “us and them” brand of theology, actually provides us with the opposite. For the goats found themselves peering into the windows of the Kingdom from the outside, precisely because of their devotion to this “us and them” mindset. They did not perceive Christ in the poor, wandering stranger, or in the condemned man locked behind prison bars! They could not perceive His presence in the least of the least, and it was this inability that landed them on the “goat list”. They could not believe that Christ had “other sheep” from a Gentile flock, and so treated them with contempt and hostility.

In order to become rich, you must connect to your desire for money with the passion of a goat who wants in off the porch. And the key to doing this is by getting clear on the specifics around your Why: Why do you desire this money? What will you spend it on? How will it feel to make it, spend it, and bask in the manifestation of your ever so important Why? Just

Like Victorian anthropologists, key players in the war on terror approached the Other as living fossils, as stuck in the past. For me, one of the most telling remarks confirming this mindset comes from a colonel in the US Army. ‘In Western Iraq, it’s like it was six centuries ago with the Bedouins in their goat hair tents.