"The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We……" — Walter Brueggemann
"The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man."
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Walter Brueggemann
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21 Quotes by Walter Brueggemann
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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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Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the…
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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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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been…
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from…
— Wilbur Smith
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The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of…
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Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that…
— Watchman Nee
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How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified…
— Basilea Schlink
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Behold Jesus Christ crucified, Who is the only foundation of our hope; He is our Mediator and Advocate; the victim…
— Carlo Borromeo
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By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants;…
— Frederic Farrar
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By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants;…
— Frederic Farrar
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The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews -…
— Alistair Cooke
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A totally different attitude is needed: the attitude of love. Christ brings love to the world. He destroys law, the…
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Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
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