Marilynne Robinson Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• 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

  Loyalty, Father, Son

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

• Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation to beget another when parents can secure so little for their children, so little safety, even in the best circumstances. Great faith is required to give the child up, trusting God to honor the parents’ love for him by assuring that there will indeed be angels in that wilderness.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Children, Father, Angel

• 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.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Father, People, Enemy

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.189, Macmillan

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

  Marilynne Robinson

  Father, Absolutes, Our Father

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

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