"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 oneâ€™s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being."

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

Walter Brueggemann

#Anxiety Quotes #Pharaohs Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
“[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.”
“I've been for 10 years trying to make something out of my life as an actor. I've learned a lot but I haven't done much that's worthwhile. So maybe if I make people wonder what I really do look like and make myself unrecognizable, they will be interested and intrigued, which eventually, of course, happened.”
“even if vampires were stupid. Especially American vampires. They hung out in places Alaric himself would never have gone, especially if he were immortal. Such as high schools. And Walmart.”
“Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.”
“There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.”
“There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.”
“I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.”

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