Commitment Quote by Walter Brueggemann

“On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.” quote by Walter Brueggemann — Download Open image

“On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.”

Walter Brueggemann

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