Frasi di Marilynne Robinson (51 frasi, pagina 2)

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Marilynne Robinson: Frasi in inglese

“Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.”

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Marilynne Robinson Home

Origine: Home

“Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.”

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Marilynne Robinson libro Housekeeping

Origine: Housekeeping

“It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.”

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Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Origine: Gilead

“You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.”

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Marilynne Robinson libro Housekeeping

Origine: Housekeeping

“There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.”

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Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Origine: Gilead

“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.”

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Marilynne Robinson

Origine: When I Was a Child I Read Books

“I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.”

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Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Origine: Gilead

“There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding.”

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Marilynne Robinson Home

Origine: Home

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

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Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Origine: Gilead

“It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.”

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Marilynne Robinson libro Lila

Origine: Lila

“… 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.”

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Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Origine: 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.”

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Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Origine: 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.”

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Marilynne Robinson libro Housekeeping

Origine: 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.”

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Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Origine: 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.”

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Marilynne Robinson libro Housekeeping

Origine: 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.”

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Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Origine: 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”

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Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Origine: Gilead

“… not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.”

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Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Origine: 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.”

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Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Origine: 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

Origine: Gilead

“… there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.”

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Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Origine: Gilead

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