profound thoughts

I find Marilynne Robinson's thoughts profound:

'The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be reconciliation and return.'

'Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.'

'He even restored the severed ear of a soldier who came to arrest him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail. Yet this was no more than tinkering.'

'Being man he felt the pull of death, and being God he must have wondered more than we do what it would be like.'