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Marilynne Robinson _ Gilead
To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been. And to protect their delicate vision of that other time, madmen will justify their condition with touching loyalty, and surround it with a thousand distractive schemes. These schemes, in turn, drive them deeper and deeper into the darkness and light {which is their mortification and their reward}, and confront them with a choice. They may either slacken and fall back, accepting the relief of a rational view and the approval of others, or they may push on, and, by falling, arise. When and if by their unforgivable stubborness they finally burst through to worlds upon worlds of motionless light, they are no longer called afflicted or insane. They are called saints." Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
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Marilynne Robinson _ Gilead
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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Marilynne Robinson _ Gilead
It 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.
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Marilynne Robinson _ Gilead
Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what i was waiting for.
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Marilynne Robinson _ Gilead
When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone. And I believe they may be the things that mean most to you, and that even your own child would have to know in order to know you well at all.
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Marilynne Robinson _ Gilead
I love the prairie! So often I have seen the dawn come and the light flood over the land and everything turn radiant at once, that word "good" so profoundly affirmed in my soul that I am amazed I should be allowed to witness such a thing. There may have been a more wonderful first moment "when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy," but for all I know to the contrary, they still do sing and shout, and they certainly might well. Here on the prairie there is nothing to distract attention from the evening and the morning, nothing on the horizon to abbreviate or to delay. Mountains would seem an impertinence from that point of view.
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Marilynne Robinson _ Gilead
That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.
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Marilynne Robinson _ Gilead
. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
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Marilynne Robinson _ 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.
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Marilynne Robinson _ Gilead
Light is constant, we just turn over in it.
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Marilynne Robinson _ Gilead
I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level it expresses a lack of faith.
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Marilynne Robinson _ Gilead
That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the Lord's.
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