marilynne robinson lila

"My faith tells me that God shared poverty, suffering, and death with human beings, which can only mean that such things are full of dignity and meaning, even though to believe this makes a great demand on one's faith, and to act as if this were true in anyway we understand is to be ridiculous. It is ridiculous also to act as if this were not absolutely and essentially true all the same." Marilynne Robinson, Lila.