Marilynne Robinson Quotes About Struggle

Quotes about: Struggle

• And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Struggle, Thinking, Enough

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.154, Macmillan

• It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it . . . so I wonder what it is and where it comes from, and I wonder what it expends out of your system, so that you have to do it till you're done, like crying in a way, I suppose, except that laughter is much more easily spent.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Laughter, Struggle, People

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

• 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 of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I haste to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Beautiful, Struggle, Civilization

• Anybody who has read any biblical scholarship knows that every scholar struggles over completely intractable problems with the original texts, or what they have to work from. It's one of the great, powerful, mysterious objects that have come down through history. This does not translate into literal interpretation for me.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Powerful, Struggle, Biblical

  Source: www.pbs.org

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