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Father Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- 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…
- . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
- It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God…
- 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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