# Quote — Marilynne Robinson, Home

> 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.

- Author: [Marilynne Robinson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilynne-robinson.md)
- Book: [Home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilynne-robinson/home.md)
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> Experience had taught them that truth had sharp edges and hard corners, and could be seriously at odds with kindness.

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> "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."

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> Her family was slower to forgive a failure of discretion than they were to forgive most things actually prohibited in Scripture.

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