Facts Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

13 Facts quotes by Marilynne Robinson

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Marilynne Robinson’s prose often weaves moral reflection with clear facts. In these thirteen lines you’ll encounter her measured, thoughtful voice without the surrounding narrative.

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Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

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I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate…

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I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

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I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening…

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He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to…

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It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent,…

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The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing…

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I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again…

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I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so…

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I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected —…

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A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a…

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I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my…

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Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are…

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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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