On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.

The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

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

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

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.

Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be coopted by the managers of this age