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I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.
Marilynne Robinson
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Marilynne Robinson
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 26
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Idaho
Marilynne Summers Robinson
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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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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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. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
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This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give 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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People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.
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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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[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where this is assumed preconceptions can only distract and obscure, though, of course, as human beings we can never wholly free ourselves of them.
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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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For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
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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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I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.
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I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.
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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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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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Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.
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There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.
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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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Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.
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The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.
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