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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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It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.
— Lauren Bacall
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When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and…
— Lauren Bacall
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It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their…
— Eric Cantona
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Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for…
— Nick Cave
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You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine…
— Chris Christie
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I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.
— Christiane Amanpour
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We need a new global culture that finds the existence of millions of thirsty people thoroughly and immediately unacceptable.
— Jean-Michel Cousteau
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Number one, it is absolutely critical that we tone down the rhetoric when it comes to the immigration debate, because there has…
— Barack Obama
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Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable…
— Ban Ki-moon
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These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.
— Trey Gowdy
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All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.
— Dalai Lama
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We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact…
— Muhammad Yunus
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