"Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about……" — Walter Brueggemann
"Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being."
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Walter Brueggemann
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21 Quotes by Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann has 21 quotes on this site.
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And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and…
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Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the…
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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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The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and…
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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.…
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People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and…
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Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet…
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We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote…
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The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who…
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We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment…
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The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform…
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More Anxiety Quotes
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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Now is the age of anxiety.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we…
— Lord Acton
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
— Alan Ball
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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
— Clive Barker
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Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence…
— Clive Barker
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of…
— Saint Basil
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Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
— Bob Beauprez
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Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes…
— Martha Beck
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
— Josh Billings
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
— Aesop
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