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That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there’s an intimacy in it. That’s the truth.
– Marilynne Robinson

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  1. I’ll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I’ll pray, and then I’ll sleep. – Marilynne Robinson
  2. The best things that happen I’d never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather. – Marilynne Robinson
  3. And we pray, and we pray and we pray and we pray.Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday-¦ – Bone Thugs and Harmony
  4. Pray greatly.Pray gladly.Pray graciously.Pray gallantly. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  5. Pray patiently.Pray purposefully.Pray painstakingly.Pray perfectly. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  6. Pray daily.Pray daringly.Pray desperately.Pray determinedly. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  7. Pray sensibly.Pray scrupulously.Pray selflessly.Pray seriously. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  8. Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex. – Barbara Cartland
  9. Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy. – John Green
  10. It’s better to have nothing,’ the children were saying. – Marilynne Robinson
  11. My grandfather once told her if you couldn’t read with cold feet, there wouldn’t be a literate soul in the state of Maine. – Marilynne Robinson
  12. When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists. – Marilynne Robinson
  13. But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it. – Marilynne Robinson
  14. How I wish you could have known me in my strength. – Marilynne Robinson
  15. It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. – Marilynne Robinson
  16. There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient. – Marilynne Robinson
  17. remembering and forgiving can be contrary things – Marilynne Robinson
  18. She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished. – Marilynne Robinson
  19. The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global – Marilynne Robinson
  20. I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect. – Marilynne Robinson
  21. it’s hard to find time to think about Kansas. – Marilynne Robinson
  22. He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn’t even know he wanted, and here it was. – Marilynne Robinson
  23. There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. – Marilynne Robinson
  24. Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. – Marilynne Robinson
  25. Avoid transgression. How’s that for advice. – Marilynne Robinson
  26. It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company. – Marilynne Robinson
  27. Love is holy because it is like grace–the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. – Marilynne Robinson
  28. . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father’s love and our deserving. – Marilynne Robinson
  29. You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time. – Marilynne Robinson
  30. …morality is a check upon the strongest temptations. – Marilynne Robinson
  31. Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it. – Marilynne Robinson
  32. I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally. – Marilynne Robinson
  33. The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. – Marilynne Robinson
  34. I’ve often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come. – Marilynne Robinson
  35. Pray until you can pray. And when you can pray, keep praying. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  36. I don’t pray because it makes sense to pray. I pray because my life doesn’t make sense without prayer. – Noah Benshea
  37. Pray for good.Pray for happy.And always pray for Mom. – Richelle E Goodrich
  38. Cheer up, love. Have faith it will get better, and if it don’t, well darlin’ that is what your knees are for. Pray pray pray. – Jennifer Megan Varnadore
  39. Of course it hurt you neanderthal! See that? Thats blood. If theres blood, theres pain. Its like smoke and fire. – Jennifer Crusie
  40. When bitter, say little; when angry, say nothing; when happy, say much; when joyful, say all. – Matshona Dhliwayo

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