Calvin says that God takes an aesthetic pleasure in people. There’s
no reason to imagine that God would choose to surround himself into infinite
time with people whose only distinction is that they fail to transgress.
King David, for example, was up to a lot of no good. To think that only
faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost
everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I can’t believe
the narrowness that has been attributed to God in terms of what he would
approve and disapprove.
Marilynne Robinson"The Art of Fiction No. 198"
from The Paris Review, No. 186
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