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See and See But Do Not Perceive

Well, see and see but do not perceive, hear and hear but do not understand, as the Lord says. I can’t claim to understand that saying, as many times as I’ve heard it, and even preached on it. It simply states a deeply mysterious fact. You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

Marilynne Robinson
Gilead – A Novel (2004, pg. 7)

Joshua Hynes

Posted by Joshua Hynes

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 1:55pm. It has been filed under Media, Books, Quotes, News, Thoughts, Personal, Spiritual, Writers, Joshua.

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