“To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“If there is anything in the life of any culture or period that gives good grounds for alarm, it is the rise… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“There’s a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much… — 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 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
