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

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

Walter Brueggemann

#Sabbath Quotes

“The Vietnam War was so obviously evil and bore down most heavily upon working class youth that it made me think about things more deeply than I had before. It disillusioned me completely and forever about the government. And it made me aware that the media and the government lied almost as a matter of course. But it also opened my eyes to what was really going on in America.”
“You would have thought that as you got older the voice would tend to deteriorate in some ways, but I always look at somebody like Tony Bennett, who is my senior, and still can hit those high notes and still can belt it out as good as he ever did. So it must be something about the voice that's unlike the rest of the muscles in your body.”
“Where focus goes, energy flows.”
“I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.”
“You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win... All the work these people are doing is forgotten.”
“Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would.”

Source : Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “Dora: A Headcase”, p.99, Hawthorne Books
“The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.”
“When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.”

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