You must forgive in order to understand.
Marilynne RobinsonThe young might have been restless around any primal fire where an elder was saying, Know this. Certainly they would have been restless. Their bodies were consumed with the business of lengthening limbs, sprouting hair, fitting themselves for procreation.
Marilynne RobinsonWeary 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.
Marilynne RobinsonAgain the starter and the engine, and after a minute or two the rattle and pop of gravel as the DeSoto eased backward out of the barn. It gleamed darkly and demurely, like a ripe plum. Its chrome was polished, hubcaps and grille, and the side walls of the tires were snowy white. There was a preposterous beauty in all that shine that made her laugh. Jack put his arm out of the window, waiving his hat like a visiting dignitary, backed into the street, and floated away, gentling the gleaming dirigible through the shadows of arching elm trees, light dropping on it through their leaves like confetti as it made its ceremonious passage.
Marilynne RobinsonThere was something that charmed her in the fact that her brother, the one true worldling in the whole tribe of Boughtons, seemed to be asking her for advice, or for wisdom, standing there in the sunlight with the wind hushing in the dusty lilacs of their childhood and laundry swaying on the lines where their school clothes used to hang.
Marilynne RobinsonHe was the measure of the failure of his father's body, and also perhaps a portending of the failure of his own.~
Marilynne RobinsonIt is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.
Marilynne RobinsonYou can love a bad book for its haplessness or pomposity or gall, if you have that starveling appetite for things human which I devoutly hope you never will have. "The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet." There are pleasures to be found where you would never look for them. That’s a bit of fatherly wisdom, but it’s also the Lord’s truth, and a thing I know from my own long experience
Marilynne RobinsonTheir lives spun off the tilting world like thread off a spindle, breakfast time, suppertime, lilac time, apple time.
Marilynne RobinsonThere 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.
Marilynne RobinsonStichwörter: life inspirational kindness love deception beauty world courage grace brave stewardship fortitude eyes precious kind
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