Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
Walter BrueggemannOn 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.
Walter BrueggemannThe power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.
Walter BrueggemannThose 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 BrueggemannHope 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
Walter Brueggemann