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Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
Marilynne Robinson
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Marilynne Robinson
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 26
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Sandpoint
Idaho
Marilynne Summers Robinson
Marilynne S. Robinson
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Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what i was waiting for.
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I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.
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It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.
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Christianity is a life, not a doctrine . . . I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own.
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Rejoice with those who rejoice. I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep.
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The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's very exceptional. I don't know anyone who doesn't enjoy a good sermon. People who are completely nonreligious know a good sermon when they hear one.
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For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.
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God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the presense of the Lord, who is with us always. He said, Love is what it amounts to, a loftier love, and pleasure in a loving presence.
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... but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.
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This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever a chance, it had passed. Strange to say, I feel a little that way about myself.
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This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.
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Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.
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I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.
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Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.
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For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
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I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level it expresses a lack of faith.
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You have to live with your mind your whole life.
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And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.
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