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Things Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me
- I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having…
- That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly…
- I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.
- It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness this article deplores…
- When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell…
- There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.
- Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage…
- That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those…
- 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…
- One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.
- One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle