Walter Brueggemann Quotes

What God hath wrought?

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

If God had wanted these two rivers to be navigable, he could have effected it simply by a fiat, and it would be an infringement of the rights of providence to improve that which, for reasons not to be understood, it had wished to remain imperfect.

The support of Israel is God’s foreign policy.

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

The more you try to grip control of your life the more God's gonna untangle that from you. He's going to make things go where you have to rely on Him.

I've always said it: God changes all the paths from morning to evening.

Do your best and leave the rest to God.

I put everything in the hands of God. He takes care of us and helps us. If he wants me to play in the World Cup, he'll protect me.

This is God's work, and God's work will not be frustrated. But there is still much to be done.

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.

Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I.

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.