"Those who sign on and depart the system……" — Walter Brueggemann
"Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood."
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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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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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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 Anxious 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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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
— Dean Acheson
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I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's…
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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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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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
— Felix Adler
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We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are…
— Andrew Bernstein
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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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If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but…
— Tom Brady
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My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh,…
— Jeff Bridges
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for…
— Edmund Burke
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst…
— Lord Byron
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