I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.
Marilynne RobinsonTag: words reading books literature
...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.
Marilynne RobinsonTo be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear
Marilynne RobinsonIt seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.
Marilynne RobinsonTag: christianity religion faith
These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.
Marilynne RobinsonTag: judgement
It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, just as native as water.
Marilynne RobinsonTag: guilt
Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.
Marilynne RobinsonTag: life
I believe the sin of covetise is that pang of resentment you may feel when even the people you love best have what you want and don't have.
Marilynne RobinsonI think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of.
Marilynne RobinsonTag: hope
There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient
Marilynne RobinsonTag: suicide mindfulness
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