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Us Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.
- If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the…
- To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly…
- Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions…
- Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.
- There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again,…
- I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think…
- 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…
- 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…
- There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency…
- Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you…
- Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too…
- You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to…
- 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…
- To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we…
- 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…
- I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — 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
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong