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Marilynne Robinson, Gilead Quotes: . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
         

. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.


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That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.



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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 their Father loves them.



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When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.



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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 or so.



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



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