As a matter of courtesy they treated one another's deceptions like truth, which was a different thing from… — Marilynne Robinson
As a matter of courtesy they treated one another's deceptions like truth, which was a different thing from deceiving or being deceived. In fact, it was a great part of the fabric of mutual understanding that made their family close.
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Experience had taught them that truth had sharp edges and hard corners, and could be seriously at odds with kindness.
"That is why it is called a Spirit," he said. "The word in Hebrew also means wind. 'The Spirit of God brooded on the face of the deep.' It is a sort of enveloping atmosphere."
Her family was slower to forgive a failure of discretion than they were to forgive most things actually prohibited in Scripture.
