Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available. Walter Brueggemann More Quotes by Walter Brueggemann More Quotes From Walter Brueggemann And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor. Walter Brueggemann theologianbrotherhealing Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun. Walter Brueggemann moonusesun God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history. Walter Brueggemann castsgods-willorder Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be coopted by the managers of this age Walter Brueggemann tenseagedoubt Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity. Walter Brueggemann celebration-of-lifecelebrationsabbath Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist. Walter Brueggemann numbnessvoicestates There are buoyant powers of healing at work in the world that do not depend on us, that we need not finance or keep functioning and that are not at our disposal. Walter Brueggemann healingworldneeds The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope. Walter Brueggemann mealsimaginationthinking If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life. Walter Brueggemann notablefaithfulchurch While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done at Mt. Sinai. . . . Moses' difficult work at Sinai is to transform the narrative vision of the Exodus into a sustainable social practice that has institutional staying-power, credibility, and authority. Walter Brueggemann difficult-workhard-workisrael Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives. Walter Brueggemann burdeneasygiving
