![]() ![]() For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become ![]() Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Walter Brueggemann, quote from The Prophetic ImaginationīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, The prophets after Moses know that his caring, weeping, grieving, and rejoicing will not be outflanked by royal hardware or royal immunity because this one is indeed God. He, unlike his royal regents, is one whose person is presented as passion and pathos, the power to care, the capacity to weep, the energy to grieve and then to rejoice. And his history begins in his attentiveness to the cries to the marginal ones. He is a God uncredentialed in the empire, unknown in the courts, unwelcome in the temple. He is not the reflection of any, for he has his own person and retains that all to himself. He is a God with a name of his own, which cannot be uttered by anyone but him. But we are a haunted people because we believe the bad joke is rooted in the character of God himself, a God who is not the reflection of Pharaoh or of Solomon. “In the imperial world of Pharaoh and Solomon, the prophetic alternative is a bad joke either to be squelched by force or ignored in satiation. ![]()
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