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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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Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.
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For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical…
— Adolf Hitler
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In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be ‘desert’), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen…
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The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems…
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What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world
— John Ashcroft
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A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present
— Moses Mendelssohn
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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…
— Walter Brueggemann
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Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.
— Helene Cixous
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When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.
— Gary Zukav
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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.
— Nick Johnson
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
— Salman Rushdie
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