Prophetic Imagination Walter Brueggemann Quotes

#1. The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

H.L. Mencken

#2. The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.

Philip Yancey

#3. Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

Paul Prudhomme

#4. That's it. I'm going to start making the right choices.

Joel Osteen

#5. A big tent is great and all, but there has to be a line in the sand, and I'm pretty sure the desire to legislate other women's bodies is it.

Andi Zeisler

#6. It's such a stupid thing to sign a band and then demand a hit right away to instantly recoup the money. The point is, you have to do it by building your own following, and that is not necessarily done by writing instant hits.

Al Jourgensen

#7. I changed what I could, and what I couldn't, I endured.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#8. We can not imagine that an Arab population forming more than 80 percent of the Iraqi society will allow the article reading that Iraq is part of the Islamic world instead of mentioning that we are part of the Arab nation, as if they want us to be linked to Iran and not to the Arab nation.

Saleh Al-Mutlaq

#9. Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths.

Harold Bloom

#10. Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. How like a winter hath my absence been
From Thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen,
What old December's bareness everywhere!

William Shakespeare

#12. Prophetic preaching is dangerous work, not only because it has a subversive edge but because it requires an epistemological break with the assumed world of dominant imagination. This epistemological break makes us aware of our assumptions we have not recognized or reflected upon.

Walter Brueggemann