Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable – which, I hasten to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.” “In every important way we are such secrets from one another, and I do believe that there is a separate language in each of us, also a separate aesthetics and a separate jurisprudence. 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. “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. “Love is holy because it is like grace – the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.” You can feel the silent and invisible life.” It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. “Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. When you’re trying to work on something and it’s not going anywhere, you can go to school and there’s a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.” Marilynne Robinson Quotes from Gilead “Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it’s also an incredible stimulus.
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