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A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.
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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That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.
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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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I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.
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Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.
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Anybody who has read any biblical scholarship knows that every scholar struggles over completely intractable problems with the original texts, or what they have to work from. It's one of the great, powerful, mysterious objects that have come down through history. This does not translate into literal interpretation for me.
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He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.
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The assumption behind any theology that I've ever been familiar with is that there is a profound beauty in being, simply in itself. Poetry, at least traditionally, has been an educing of the beauty of language, the beauty of experience, the beauty of the working of the mind, and so on. The pastor does, indeed, appreciate it.
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Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.
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Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.
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I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.
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Most institutions of higher learning in the West were founded by and for religious denominations. The supposed alienation of education and faith is a recent phenomenon. At the same time, neither education nor the lack of it predisposes one to faith.
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If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.
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A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
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It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.
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Grace has a grand laughter in it.
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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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Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.
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