I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the… — 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… — 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
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I… — 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… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the… — 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
