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Faith Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.
- Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation…
- I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel…
- 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…
- There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.
- 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…
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