Apropos

[banzai]

Last night, barlow_girl shared a thought-provoking quote from Marilynne Robinson's Gilead (loaned to her by shemaiah and reviewed here):"This is an important thing, which I have told many people, and which my father told me, and which his father told him. When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put

Comments

[islandboy]

Amen. Amen. Amen.
And well put. I think I shall like this book very much.

[banzai]

I haven't read it, but if this passage is any indication, it seems like the kind of book that bears consideration above and beyond reading to pass the time. I hope you enjoy it!

[lunasparrow]

The people I've hated the most have usually done my soul the most good. Not my life as such, but the formation of my soul.

Sometimes I feel like the circumstances of my life and the world as such are just scenery for the real drama of the formation of my own soul for eternity.

[chippa]

Um, yeah. YEAH!