Walter Brueggemann Quotes

It's funny how God will change your plans for you when he's ready.

I think that what's bizarre to me about life is that sometimes you have to have everything taken away before you experience grace or before you actually recognize that grace can happen to you.

Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd. Incongruously enough, however, when we allow ourselves to fully accept uncertainty, to embrace and cultivate it even, then we actually can begin to feel within ourselves the presence of an Absolute. The person who cannot welcome ambiguity cannot welcome God.

I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control.

Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time.

Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.

God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved.

What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.

Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of nations, and who has at all times been revealed in our country's history, let us invoke His aid and His blessings upon our labors.

Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.

Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.