Adulthood is a wonderful thing and...

Adulthood is a wonderful thing and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts. I believe the soul in Paradise must enjoy something nearer to a perpetual vigorous adulthood than to any other state we know.

- Marilynne Robinson

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Other quotes by Marilynne Robinson

The parents of these young soldiers would come to me and ask how the Lord could allow such a thing. I felt like asking them what the Lord would have to do to tell us He didn't allow something. But instead I would comfort them by saying we would never know what their young men had been spared. Most of them took me to mean they were spare the trenches and the mustard gas, but what I really meant was that they were spared the act of killing.

- Marilynne Robinson

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

- Marilynne Robinson

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 is precisely the spirit in which it is written. Of course he's right about many things, one of them being the destructive potency of religious self-righteousness. (p. 146)

- Marilynne Robinson

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

- Marilynne Robinson

i know more than i know and must learn it from myself

- Marilynne Robinson

We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself.

- Marilynne Robinson

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