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on Gilead
Published by bryan | Filed under journal entries
September 19th.
Reading Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead” finally and am finding it a terrific read. Here is my favorite set of lines so far:
“And I can’t believe that, when we have all been changed and put on incorruptibility, we will forget our fantastic condition of mortality and impermanence, the great bright dream of procreating and perishing that meant the whole world to us. In eternity this world will be Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets. Because I don’t imagine any reality putting this one in the shade entirely, and I think piety forbids me to try.”
Don
September 20th, 2006
September 20th, 2006 at 10:33 am
Have you read any of Alcorn’s book (more like dissertation) on Heaven? Sounds along the same lines. One of my favorite new thoughts is that we were created to live on the earth, and all we do here, though a shadow of what is to come, is still important and will prepare us for the New Earth.
September 20th, 2006 at 11:48 am
“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, of the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood that they’ve shed; and it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify what has happened.â€
~Karamazov
September 30th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
sorry, just noticed that this was a tribute page. Admin, is there a way you can delete my comments?
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