“… 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 Robinson GileadSource: Gilead
“I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.”Marilynne Robinson GileadSource: Gilead
“Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting… By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.”Marilynne Robinson book HousekeepingSource: Housekeeping
“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”Marilynne Robinson GileadSource: Gilead
“When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to mitigate.”Marilynne Robinson book HousekeepingSource: Housekeeping
“I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.”Marilynne Robinson GileadSource: Gilead
“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”Marilynne Robinson GileadSource: Gilead
“… not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.”Marilynne Robinson GileadSource: Gilead
“She 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.”Marilynne Robinson GileadSource: Gilead
“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.”Marilynne Robinson GileadSource: Gilead
“… there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.”Marilynne Robinson GileadSource: Gilead