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When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember 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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When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone. And I believe they may be the things that mean most to you, and that even your own child would have to know in order to know you well at all.
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For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.
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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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I'm amazed at what I have taken for granted. How to truly take in our situation I don't know, but I wish I had started asking myself that question earlier than I did.
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Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.
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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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I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.
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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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I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.
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I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.
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--There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal.
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. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
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You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.
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It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.
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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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Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by two. I'd multiply by ten or twelve if I had the energy.
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It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.
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Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.
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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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I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.
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