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[quotespile]

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.

Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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[megairea]

I’m grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, 2004

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[luthienne]

My own dark time, as I call it, the time of my loneliness, was most of my life, as I have said, and I can't make any real account of myself without speaking of it. The time passed so strangely, as if every winter were the same winter, and every spring the same spring.

Marilynne Robinson, from Gilead

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[aseaofquotes]

Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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[antifainternational]

"Fascism is not a politics, it is a pathology compounded of nostalgia and resentment. European fascism has had clear markers, three being white supremacy and Christian nationalism, and, of course, charismatic leadership. In using the word “pathology” I put aside the idea of politics as usual. Other patterns are easily discernible within our American strain of this virus...Fascism is an autoimmune disease. Under the banner of patriotism it hates its nation and people and oversteps all civilized limits in its zeal to bring about fundamental change, whatever the damage. Something of the kind is discernible in the talk of secession, national divorce, civil war." -Marilynne Robinson, "US conservatives love to warn of creeping fascism. Do they understand what it is?" The Guardian, April 13, 2023

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[introvertlifestyle]

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

Marilynne Robinson (American writer, *1943)

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[exhaled-spirals]

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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[mythologyofblue]

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.” ― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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[litsnaps]

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[dk-thrive]

That is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, August 4, 2020) (via Alive on All Channels)

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[theinwardlight]

From Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Image: Ethiopian Nativity icon 

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[megairea]

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life. All it needs from you is that you take care not to trample on it.

Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, 2004

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[luthienne]

...no words could be bitter enough, no day could be long enough. There is just no end to it. Disappointment. I eat and drink it. I wake and sleep it.

Marilynne Robinson, from Gilead

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[wellconstructedsentences]

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

Marilynne Robinson

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

An illumination from a book of hours, sixteenth century © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

* * * *

“Genesis acknowledges a crucial variable that is not present in the Babylonian epics—human culpability. To have been too noisy is more anodyne, even, than to have tasted an apple. But Adam and Eve disobeyed, doubted, tried to deceive. These are all complex acts of will. The old Christian theologies spoke of felix culpa, the fortunate fall. This is, in effect, another name for human agency, responsibility, even freedom. If we could do only those things God wills, we would not be truly free—although to discern the will of God and act on it is freedom. Our human nature as fallen and our human nature as divine have a dynamic, asymptotic relation with each other. The centrality of humankind in the creation myth of Genesis is from the beginning an immeasurable elevation of status, made meaningful in the fact of our interacting with God even at the level of sacred history. This is unique to the Bible and central to both Testaments. Could Moses really have refused to return to Egypt? Might Judas have refused to betray Jesus, who knew he must be betrayed? All this is related to the fact that the Bible does not exist to explain away mysteries and complexities but to reveal and explore them with a respect and restraint that resists conclusion.”

— Marilynne Robinson

[Harpers]

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[seemoreandmore]

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life. All it needs from you is that you take care not to trample on it.”

Marilynne Robinson, from Gilead

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