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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.

Marilynne Robinson
Love Is, What Matters, Grace
Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.209, Macmillan

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.

Marilynne Robinson
Errors, Order, Grace

Grace has a grand laughter in it.

Marilynne Robinson
Laughter, Grace

...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.

Marilynne Robinson
Miracle, Grace, Doe
Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.52, Macmillan

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