In God We Do Not Trust Quotes

“It is the peculiar mandate of the church to be in solidarity with those left behind and those left out.”
― Walter Brueggemann, In God We Do Not Trust

“private charity is good for the support of the symphony and the opera; but when it comes to needy children, we need “the raw power of government.”
― Walter Brueggemann, In God We Do Not Trust

“The very ones whom the elite seek to exclude are the primary candidates to constitute the community of Jesus, for the “holy people” is formed “from below” among those who live a distance from the mirages of virtue and control.”
― Walter Brueggemann, In God We Do Not Trust

“Thus everywhere in scripture the issue is joined between these two kinds of truth. One truth is top-down. It originates in and serves the aims of established power. It tends to be quantifiable, provides certitude and security, and grows always more abstract. The alternative truth embodied in and performed by Moses, Elijah, Elisha, and Jesus is bottom-up. It operates among and on behalf of ordinary people and concerns bodily possibility and bodily social transformation. The weight of scriptural testimony is to insist that top-down truth will never be effectively transformative and cannot be. Transformative power is released only from below.”
― Walter Brueggemann, In God We Do Not Trust

“The raw power of government is to be used on behalf of the vulnerable, not against them.”
― Walter Brueggemann, In God We Do Not Trust

“Thus when Mr. Trump proposes to “make America pray again,” his intent will not be prayers of confession, of petition, of intercession, or of thanks; that does not leave much.”
― Walter Brueggemann, In God We Do Not Trust