Mike

“There is no strictly secular language that can translate religious awe.”
― Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books

“When Jesus describes Judgment, the famous separation of the sheep from the goats, he does not mention religious affiliation or sexual orientation or family values. He says, "I was hungry, and ye fed me not" (Matthew 25:42).”
― Marilynne Robinson

“It is often said that Europeans learned religious intolerance from the Old Testament. Then how did we happen to skip over the parts where the laws protect and provide for the poor, and where oppression of them is most fiercely forbidden? It is surely dishonest to suggest we learned anything at all from the Torah, if we have not learned anything good from it. Better to say our vices are our own than to try to exculpate ourselves by implying that our attention strayed during the humane and visionary passages. The law of Moses puts liberation theology to shame in its passionate loyalty to the poor.”
― Marilynne Robinson

“Ideology is a straight-edge ruler in a fractal universe.”
― Marilynne Robinson