Quotes from Walter Brueggemann

Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.

God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

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.

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.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

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.

The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.

It is experiences of being overwhelmed, nearly destroyed, & surprisingly given life that empower us to pray & sing.

The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

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.