Walter Brueggemann Quotes

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

Walter Brueggemann

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• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Great
  • Long
  • Attention

• You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Way
  • Things
  • Child

• I have been in auditions where - because - you're always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Better

• Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Money
  • Social
  • Rumors

• The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • You
  • Playing
  • Flying

• The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

  

  Wale
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Look

• How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies?  The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,-all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Life
  • Time
  • Spring

• We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Giving
  • Choices
  • Chance

• I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Long
  • Stars
  • Shows

• I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Up
  • May
  • Never

• To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Love
  • Consolation

• If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea. You have to get out past the harbor into the great dephts of God, and begin to know things for yourself....beg in to have spiritual discernment. Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Great
  • God
  • Past

• Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Real
  • Education
  • Process

• He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Poet
  • Homer
  • Gertrude Stein

• My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Up
  • She
  • American

• A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

  

  William Congreve
  • Beauty
  • Wit
  • Arguing

• All the kids are gone. It's the greatest thing that has ever happened to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hanks. I'll tell you that right now. Second greatest after having the kids in the first place. When they go, holy smoke, it's like you're dating again. It's fantastic. Also, we were doing an awful lot of work.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Kids
  • Gone

• At the end of the day, I don't think I am going to be judged by what happened in the 90's and 2000's, at the end of the day my career will be judged from beginning to end and everything in between.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Ends
  • Careers
  • Happened

• As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Long
  • Fight
  • Army

• The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

  

  Walter Brueggemann
  • Gospel
  • Judged
  • Empire