Top 25 Quotes by Walter Brueggemann of 32 - Page 2

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

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

Doubt, Age, Tense

Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist.

Walter Brueggemann

Numbness, Voice, States

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

Thinking, Imagination, Meals

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

Healing, Needs, World

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

Faithful, Church, Notable

Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.

Walter Brueggemann

Giving, Easy, Burden

Walter Brueggemann (2010). “Prayers for a Privileged People”, p.169, Abingdon Press

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

Hard Work, Difficult Work, Israel

Walter Brueggemann (1999). “The Covenanted Self: Explorations in Law and Covenant”, p.49, Fortress Press