“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“...good fortune is not only good fortune, and over the years things happened in that family that caused some terrible regret. Still,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Why should a family with eight rambunctious children bother owning anything that could be damaged? They sat on the arms of their… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“That's what the family is for,' he said. 'Calvin says it is the Providence of God that we look after those nearest… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“We had been assured by our elders that intelligence was a family trait. All my kin and forebears were people of substantial… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love for people we do not know or whom we know very slightly. This thesis may be influenced by the fact that I have spent literal years of my life lovingly absorbed in the thoughts and perceptions of—who knows… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share
“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 Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
