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Marilynne Robinson Quotes: It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.
         

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.


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Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.



Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.



Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.



I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.



We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.



This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.



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 to do great harm.

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 to do great harm.



Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me



When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.



Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.





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If we can accept the laws of the universe, the ebb and flow of joy and tragedy, then we have everything we need to embrace our true freedom.



My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

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I'm the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.



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The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you.



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Forest of Arden was great for me. I couldn't finish outside the top five there no matter how hard I tried!



That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.

That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.



It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.

It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.



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I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.



Me and my cheeseburgers are insane.

Me and my cheeseburgers are insane.




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