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Which God Do You Kill For? — bumper sticker

Let's Fix Democracy in This Country First — bumper sticker

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. — Luciano Pavarotti

Idolatry is at the heart of oppression and coercion. Idolatry is at the root both of our oppressing and our being oppressed. Idolatry—wrongly perceiving who is in charge—is the opposite of shalom. — Walter Brueggemann

Shalom is the substance of the biblical vision of one community embracing all creation. It refers to all those resources and factors which make communal harmony joyous and effective. . . . It is well-being that exists in the very midst of threats—from sword and drought, and from wild animals. It is well-being of a material, physical, historical kind, not idyllic "pie in the sky," but "salvation" in the midst of trees and crops and enemies. — Walter Brueggemann

There are buoyant powers of healing at work in the world that do not depend on us, that we need not finance or keep functioning and that are not at our disposal. — Walter Brueggemann

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. — Simone Weil

God is at the breaking points in human community. — Walter Brueggemann