Beauty Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

12 Beauty quotes by Marilynne Robinson

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Marilynne Robinson’s prose often pauses to consider the quiet splendor of life; this brief set offers a taste of her contemplative approach to aesthetic grace.

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It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying.

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“How I wish you could have known me in my strength.”

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“It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.”

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There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to…

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I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness…

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There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel…

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“...when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish…

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“It is the elegance of nature that creates even the appearance of simplicity... It is not respectable to say that an organism…

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The assumption behind any theology that I've ever been familiar with is that there is a profound beauty in being, simply in…

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“In every important way we are such secrets from one another, and I do believe that there is a separate language in…

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“It has seemed to me sometimes as though the Lord breathes on this poor gray ember of Creation and it turns to…

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“I know this is all mere apparition compared to what awaits us, but it is only lovelier for that. There is a…

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“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his…

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I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

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“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.”

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“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And…

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“Prayer is a discipline in truthfulness, in honesty.”

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“The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.’ There are pleasures to be found where you…

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I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are…

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Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to…

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“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.”

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“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…

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