Walter Brueggemann Quotes About Sabbath

Quotes about: Sabbath

• Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Anxiety, Withdrawal, Pharaohs

  Walter Brueggemann (2010). “Journey to the Common Good”, p.26, Westminster John Knox Press

• Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competition.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Anxiety, Competition, Doe

• Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Celebration, Celebration Of Life, Sabbath

  Walter Brueggemann (2011). “Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries: Deuteronomy”, p.69, Abingdon Press

• Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Sabbath, Pauses

  Walter Brueggemann (2014). “Sabbath as Resistance”, p.45, Westminster John Knox Press

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