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More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine.
Marilynne Robinson
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Marilynne Robinson
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 26
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Marilynne Summers Robinson
Marilynne S. Robinson
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She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse.
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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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This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.
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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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Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.
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The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.
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Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.
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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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When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.
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The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence.
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Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
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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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It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.
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When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.
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There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us.
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