Grace has a grand laughter in it.
Marilynne RobinsonIt all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.
Marilynne RobinsonThat is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the Lord's.
Marilynne RobinsonI have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think the concept of transcendence is based on a misreading of creation. With all respect to heaven, the scene of the miracle is here, among us. The eternal as an idea is much less preposterous than time, and this very fact should seize our attention.
Marilynne RobinsonShe closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere."
It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.
Marilynne RobinsonTags: art
--"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.
Marilynne RobinsonIt is clearly true that the reflex of disparagement is no more compatible with rigorous inquiry than the impulse to glorify.
Marilynne RobinsonWe would have visions in those days,a number of us did. Your young men will have visions and your old men will dream dreams
Marilynne RobinsonI mean only respect when I say that your mother has always struck me as someone with whom the Lord might have chosen to spend some part of His mortal time
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