Marilynne Robinson - Love Quotes

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I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God's grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.

Marilynne Robinson
There is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

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A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

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There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence?

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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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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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Love is holy because it is like grace—the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

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But it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.

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It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

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God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the presense of the Lord, who is with us always. He said, Love is what it amounts to, a loftier love, and pleasure in a loving presence.

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Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,

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