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My politics, and my religion as well, are based entirely on the loveliness and value of ordinary human lives. The creaky apparatus called politics shelters or oppresses or threatens these lives, and is therefore of interest.

Marilynne Robinson

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Marilynne Robinson
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 26
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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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I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.
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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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. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
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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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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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Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
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