Walter Brueggemann Quotes

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

Walter Brueggemann

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• Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Time
  • Bread
  • Minority

• A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wisdom
  • Dance
  • Security

• Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream at the same time. That's now gone, because of this weird mutation of pop, rap, R&B, bad rave, and supposedly soulful singing on top of it.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Ideas
  • Singing
  • Great Band

• I think the top leadership challenge issue in our world today is how to deal with the continuing, growing population in the world and all the resource demands it places on the world and burgeoning populations in Africa and Asia that lack the resources to have a healthy, happy life.

  

  Ronald Klain
  • Leadership
  • Issue
  • Happy Life

• If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Beautiful
  • Stories
  • Mankind

• We were fighting, scratching and clawing all year. At the end of the game, you had that feeling of 'Here we go again,' but we made the plays we needed to win the game.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Win

• We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did.

  

  Ivan Allen
  • Mistakes
  • Make
  • Cities

• The white race is the cancer of human history.

  

  Susan Sontag
  • History
  • Cancer
  • Race

• Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Way
  • Feels
  • Watch

• Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reality
  • Promise
  • Commitment

• The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.

  

  William Lloyd Garrison
  • Superstitions
  • Sabbath
  • Pillars

• The hushed winds their Sabbath keep.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Wind
  • Sabbath

• More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

  

  Ahad Ha'am
  • Israel
  • Sabbath

• The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Problem
  • Language

• Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Building
  • Anger
  • Attack

• This is a society in which you are who you think you are. Nobody gives you your identity here, you have to reinvent yourself every day." He is right, I suspect, but I can't figure out how this is done. You just say what you are and everyone believes you? That seems like a confidence trick to me, and not one I think I can pull off. Still, somehow, invent myself I must. But how do I choose from identity options available all around me? I feel, once again, as I did when facing those ten brands of toothpaste - faint from excess, paralysed by choice.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Choice
  • Believes
  • Trick

• I like Israel. The fans are incredible. It was the best.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Best
  • Fans
  • Israel

• Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

  

  Walter Brueggemann
  • Sabbath
  • Transforms
  • Refreshes