Noah’s Reviews > Gilead > Status Update

“So it is a rejection of the reality of Grace to hold her enemy at fault. Those things can only be true. It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness, but because God their father loves them.”

"I have thought about that very often – how the times change, and the same words that carry a good many people in the howling wilderness in one generation are irksome and meaningless in the next"

And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.

I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness.

People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that’s true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives. That’s clearer to me every day.

“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life. All it needs from you is that you take care not to trample on it.”