For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its wealth of error as well… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Now we are more inclined to speak of information than of learning, and to think of the means by which information is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Christianity is a life, not a doctrine . . . I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I just lay there, helplessly subject to my anxieties. A good many of them I could have put out of my mind,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I’m not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Many times when I stop working on a problem consciously, my mind continues to work on it below the surface. Often solutions… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The Lord gave you a mind so that you can make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“In The Descent of Man, Darwin says: With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive… — 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
