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The Prophetic Imagination

by Walter Brueggemann

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Aug 13, 2026 06:28PM

“To sentimentalize something is to savor rather than to suffer the sadness of it, is to sigh over the prettiness of it rather than to tremble at the beauty of it, which may make demands of us or pose fearsome threats.”
― Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

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“Let him preach this overwhelming of tragedy by comedy, of darkness by light, of the ordinary by the extraordinary, as the tale that is too good not to be true because to dismiss it as untrue is to dismiss along with it that catch of the breath, that beat and lifting of the heart near to or even accompanied by tears, which I believe is the deepest intuition of truth that we have.”
― Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

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“他接著又說:「我走進一個園子,藉著默想一朵花,就能擁抱當下。一朵花愈是嬌艷、活潑,它生命也愈是脆弱難懂。美本質上是脆弱的-你不解溫柔地碰,它就消失; 你握得太緊,花瓣會掉落,你必須輕輕捧著它,專心凝望, 不然它就溜了。如果你想在田野中體味花的美,就不能分析它,解剖它,企圖了解它的成分或本源。我們的生命也樣,是具體的,卻也是難懂的。誰可以透徹剖析我們的生命,闡述其多采多姿?但我們可以體驗、感受,就在當下,而不要解剖生命,像解剖花朵,將花瓣拿掉。」”
― 盧雲

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“People are prepared for everything except for the fact that beyond the darkness of their blindness there is a great light. They are prepared to go on breaking their backs plowing the same old field until the cows come home without seeing, until they stub their toes on it, that there is a treasure buried in that field rich enough to buy Texas.”
― Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

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“The problem with time, I've learned, whether it's those first two weeks I got to spend with you, or the final two months I got to spend with him, eventually time always runs out. I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John. But I understand that I lost the right to know these things long ago. No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as ever was - I'll see you soon then.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

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