The church is mandated not just to do kind things, but mandated to perceive the world differently: to know that the wave of the future is not in putting people down, but in raising them up; the fruit of the kingdom is not in excluding but in including. — Walter Brueggemann
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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
Walter Brueggemann
Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available.
Simone Weil
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
Walter Brueggemann
We have privy information about God’s intent for the world; and since then, we are marked men and women bearing a secret vision the world cannot tolerate. But isn’t it great to know it and to be invited to live it?!
Walter Brueggemann
God is at the breaking points in human community. — Walter Brueggemann
Denise Levertov
And when it was claimed The war had ended, it had not ended. — Denise Levertov
Ellen F. Davis
For it is in the act of worship that the church steadily renews itself in the discipline of wisdom. Worship is a vigorous act of reordering our desires in the light of God’s burning desire for the wellness of creation.
Ellen F. Davis
In our culture, mysticism is sadly misunderstood and maligned as disconnected with reality: impractical at best and dangerously irresponsible at worst. Even those who may admire mysticism often regard it as the special capacity of a few spiritually gifted people, almost all of whom lived in the Middle Ages. . . . Mysticism is not an escape from reality, but the opposite. It is a prayerful penetration of reality. — Ellen F. Davis
Walter Brueggemann
The doxologies of ancient Israel, the lyrical soaring of Paul’s Epistles, and the regular amazement evoked by the deeds and teaching of Jesus all converge in the stunning affirmation that the world is other than we had taken it to be, because the world is the venue for God’s reign.