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Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
— Walter Brueggemann
Sabbath is the practice of letting life rest safely in God's hand.41
— Walter Brueggemann
Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.
— Walter Brueggemann
The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.
— Walter Brueggemann
Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.
— Walter Brueggemann
Sabbath becomes a decisive, concrete, visible way of opting for and aligning with the God of rest.
— Walter Brueggemann
Every uncompromising ideology reduces faith to an idolatry,
— Walter Brueggemann
I had come for certitude, but the poetic speech does not give certitude.
— Walter Brueggemann
Worship that does not lead to neighborly compassion and justice cannot be faithful worship of YHWH. The offer is a phony Sabbath!
— Walter Brueggemann
God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.
— Walter Brueggemann
prophetic preaching can take place only where the preacher is deeply embedded in the YHWH narrative.
— Walter Brueggemann
Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available.
— Walter Brueggemann
To participate in the Eucharist is to live inside God's imagination. It is to be caught up into what is really real, the body of Christ.
— Walter Brueggemann
Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.
— Walter Brueggemann
Relationship with God is not immune to the surprises and costs of our daily life.
— Walter Brueggemann
Cynicism always comes clothed in "realism". The alternatives to begin with an act of imagination. Can we imagine another way?
— Walter Brueggemann
We have nearly lost our capacity to think ihcologicafly about public issues and public problems.
— Walter Brueggemann
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.
— Walter Brueggemann
The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.
— Walter Brueggemann
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be resolved until the human rights of the other are recognized and guaranteed.
— Walter Brueggemann
We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.
— Walter Brueggemann
In that world where jingles replace doxology, God is not free and the people know no justice or compassion.
— Walter Brueggemann
1. The first partner in the meeting is the text.
— Walter Brueggemann
Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist.
— Walter Brueggemann
2. The second partner in the meeting is the baptized.
— Walter Brueggemann
(paraphrasing 1 Cor. 1:25) that the fictions of God are truer than the facts of men.13
— Walter Brueggemann
We live our lives before the wild, dangerous, unfettered and free character of the living God.
— Walter Brueggemann
The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.
— Walter Brueggemann
Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.
— Walter Brueggemann
The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.
— Walter Brueggemann
The two commandments go beneath social performance and social appearance to the deep, elemental, defining issue of God versus the gods.
— Walter Brueggemann
Prophecy cannot be separated very long from doxology, or it will either wither or become ideology. Abraham
— Walter Brueggemann
Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.
— Walter Brueggemann
Moses knows that prosperity breeds amnesia.
— Walter Brueggemann
