“I'd never have believed I'd see a wife of mine doting on a child of mine. It still amazes me every time… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“While you read this, I am imperishable, somehow more alive than I have ever been, in the strength of my youth, with… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn’t one of… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I believe that the old man did indeed have far too narrow an idea of what a vision might be. He may,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share
“I think sometimes there might be an advantage in making people aware how worn and stale these old transgressions are. It might take some… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share
There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share
“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share
“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share
“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share
“The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.’ There are pleasures to be found where you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share
I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share
Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share
“My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share
“Cranky old Leviticus gave us—gave Christ—not only “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” but also the rather forgotten “Thou shalt love the stranger… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share
