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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 repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.
— George Saunders
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My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their…
— Sherry Turkle
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear…
— George Eliot
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Kindness refreshes and restores the tired and broken.
— Gerard Straub
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Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the…
— Confucius
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In visiting teaching we reach out to each other. Hands often speak as voices can’t. A warm embrace conveys volumes. A laugh…
— Elaine L. Jack
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The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then…
— Lewis Hyde
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He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.
— Ambrose
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
— Pliny the Elder
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Meditation is like a bath for the mind; it clears and refreshes our windows of perception, allowing more light, love, and happiness…
— David Simon
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