Quotes about God
God is a magnet who draws pain to God's own self.
— Walter Brueggemann
The withdrawal of the king from the narrative exposes the king as an irrelevance. The one with all the power can do nothing to save. Because it is only "my God who saves.
— Walter Brueggemann
In the prophetic tradition the continual insistence is that trusting relationships and not tradable commodities are the proper category for communion with God.
— Walter Brueggemann
This exceptionalism is deeply present in American public rhetoric and every political leader must subscribe to it. Moreover, appeal to this exceptionalism as God's chosen people can cover a multitude of sins, for example, economic injustice and political oligarchy, all in the name of chosenness.
— 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
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns." Isa. 52:7
— Walter Brueggemann
Idolatry consists in harnessing God for our purposes, regarding Yahweh as a reliable ally in our interests, so that God finally becomes useful to us.11 That usefulness is a temptation of all zealous religion, conservative or liberal.
— Walter Brueggemann
Thus the Sabbath of the fourth commandment is an act of trust in the subversive, exodus-causing God of the first commandment, an act of submission to the restful God of commandments one, two, and three. Sabbath is a practical divestment so that neighborly engagement, rather than production and consumption, defines our lives.
— 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
paraphrasing 1 Cor. 1:25) that the fictions of God are truer than the facts of men.13
— Walter Brueggemann
The two commandments go beneath social performance and social appearance to the deep, elemental, defining issue of "God versus the gods.
— Walter Brueggemann
to domesticate God and so to curb the freedom that belongs to this erupting God (Exod. 20:4
— Walter Brueggemann