Quotes about Hope
Prayer is a refusal to settle for what is.
— Walter Brueggemann
It is the silence-breaking cry that begins the process that turns pain into joy.
— Walter Brueggemann
Prophecy cannot be separated very long from doxology, or it will either wither or become ideology. Abraham
— Walter Brueggemann
Cynicism always comes clothed in "realism". The alternatives to begin with an act of imagination. Can we imagine another way?
— Walter Brueggemann
we have believed that faith does not mean to acknowledge and embrace negativity.
— Walter Brueggemann
do not think for one moment that there is any ready transfer from this narrative to our real-life crisis with the virus. The Bible does not often easily "apply." The Bible does, however, invite an open imagination that hopes for the best outcomes of serious scientific research. At the same time, it affirms that deeply inscrutable holy reality is in, with, under, and
— Walter Brueggemann
Thus the teaching of Jesus attests to the possibility of God that the world has long since taken to be impossible. That is what is wonderful about his teaching.
— Walter Brueggemann
Along with anger, God makes a second response to our guilt. Anger at the throne is compounded by God's utter anguish at having hoped and been betrayed, at having yearned and failed. The
— Walter Brueggemann
Where there is no speech we must live in despair. And exile is first of all where our speech has been silenced and God's speech has been banished. But the prophetic poet asserts hope precisely in exile.
— Walter Brueggemann
First, that wherever you live, it is probably Egypt; second, that there is a better place, a world more attractive, a promised land; and third, that "the way to the land is through the wilderness." There is no way to get from here to there except by joining together and marching.
— Walter Brueggemann
Reading Jeremiah alone leaves faith in death where God finally will not stay. And reading Second Isaiah alone leads us to imagine that we may receive comfort without tears and tearing. Clearly, only those who anguish will sing new songs. Without anguish the new song is likely to be strident and just more royal fakery.
— Walter Brueggemann
It is rather the conviction that God will not quit until God has arrived at God's good intention.
— Walter Brueggemann