Quotes about Spirituality
In that world where jingles replace doxology, God is not free and the people know no justice or compassion.
— Walter Brueggemann
When a god is fashioned into a golden commodity (or even lesser material); divine subject becomes divine object, and agent becomes commodity.
— Walter Brueggemann
prophetic preaching can take place only where the preacher is deeply embedded in the YHWH narrative.
— Walter Brueggemann
Prophecy cannot be separated very long from doxology, or it will either wither or become ideology. Abraham
— Walter Brueggemann
Relationship with God is not immune to the surprises and costs of our daily life.
— Walter Brueggemann
Even in the wilderness with scarce resources, God mandates a pause for Sabbath for the community:
— 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
Nobody is profane or unclean. Nobody can be discounted. Nobody is second-class. Nobody is subject to dismissal. Nobody should be cheap labor. Nobody should suffer systems of violence. Old living is contradicted by the truth of the Spirit. The superstition of superiority is broken. The old distinction of chosenness is placed in question.
— Walter Brueggemann
to domesticate God and so to curb the freedom that belongs to this erupting God (Exod. 20:4
— Walter Brueggemann
Sabbath is the visible acknowledgment that life is not defined by commoditization.
— Walter Brueggemann
we will not have a politics of justice and compassion unless we have a religion of God's freedom.
— 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