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Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.
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She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there from the very beginning, a measured distance away, standing in the ordinary light like some plain house where one went in and was greeted by respectable people and was shown to a room where everything one had ever lost or put aside was gathered together, waiting.
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I'm writing this in part to tell you that 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. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.
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Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
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You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years.
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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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I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.
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I 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.
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The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?
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There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient
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Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.
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When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.
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Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.
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You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.
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He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required
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It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.
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Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, "Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by two. I'd multiply by ten or twelve if I had the energy.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
November 26, 1943
(age 80)
Bio:
Marilynne Summers Robinson is an American novelist and essayist best known for her novels Housekeeping and Gilead.
Known for:
Gilead (2004)
Housekeeping (1980)
When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays (2012)
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