Quotes about God
As we go to the places where we are called by God—sometimes gladly, sometimes reluctantly, always in anxiety—we are drawn into the newness of God's future.
— Walter Brueggemann
Relationship with God is not immune to the surprises and costs of our daily life.
— Walter Brueggemann
It is no obvious or "natural" matter to resituate our lives with reference to the holy power and purpose of God. But that is what we do in prayer.
— Walter Brueggemann
As a result, legitimate indignation is regularly siphoned away from speech with God to be acted out in other, perhaps more destructive ways. Such speech of rage addressed to YHWH is credible only when the worshiping community has confidence that the covenant God addressed is both willing and able to intervene in contexts of unbearable suffering.
— Walter Brueggemann
Lent is rather seeing how to take steps into God's future so that we are no longer defined by what is past and no longer distracted by what we have treasured or feared about the present. Lent is for embracing the baby given to old people; resurrection to new life in Easter; and the offer of a new world made by God from nothing.
— Walter Brueggemann
Even in the wilderness with scarce resources, God mandates a pause for Sabbath for the community:
— Walter Brueggemann
The emancipatory gift of YHWH to Israel is contrasted with all the seductions of images. The memory of the exodus concerns the God of freedom who frees.
— Walter Brueggemann
requires both the outrageousness of God and the daily work of decreasing so that Jesus and God's vision of peace may increase.
— Walter Brueggemann
As every vibrant subcommunity knows, the defining prerequisite for such a subcommunity is a conviction that it can and will be different because of the purposes of God that will not relent.
— Walter Brueggemann
It is the work of the poet to imagine YHWH out beyond old stereotypes and to show us that the God of Israel, at the very moment of risk, is a God of healing, transformative, covenantal fidelity.
— Walter Brueggemann
doing economic justice for the vulnerable in generous, intentional ways, is communion with God.
— Walter Brueggemann
The point that prophetic imagination must ponder is that there is no freedom of God without the politics of justice and compassion, and there is no politics of justice and compassion without a religion of the freedom of God.
— Walter Brueggemann