"If I had had this experience earlier in life, I would have been much wiser, much more compassionate. I really didn't understand what it was that made ...

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.
~ Marilynne Robinson ~












It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fa...
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