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Walter Brueggemann has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will…
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Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is…
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Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.
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Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system…
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The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of…
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The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.
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When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of…
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People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or…
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Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep…
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We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the…
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The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's…
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We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another…
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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
— Richard M. Nixon
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You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for…
— Hermann Goring
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When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would…
— Willie Nelson
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Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let…
— Daniel Berrigan
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There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If we follow the example of Jesus Christ and become true peacemakers, that flood of love will cover the earth as with…
— Theodore M. Burton
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I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up…
— Arthur Hays Sulzberger
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The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.
— Dalai Lama
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A peacemaker does not mean a peaceful person.
— Lanza del Vasto
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Peace, however, is not merely a gift to be received: it is also a task to be undertaken. In order to be…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam…
— Paul Dickson
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