We would have visions in those days,a number of us did. Your young men will have visions and your old men will dream dreams
("Gilead")
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Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.Marilynne Robinson
Grace has a grand laughter in it.
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It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it . . . so I wonder what it is and where it comes from, and I wonder what it expends out of your system, so that you have to do it till you're done, like crying in a way, I suppose, except that laughter is much more easily spent.
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I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.
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People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives.
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I mean only respect when I say that your mother has always struck me as someone with whom the Lord might have chosen to spend some part of His mortal time
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