“It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Your mother asked him if he would like to say grace, and he did, with an elegant simplicity that seemed almost wasted… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Let me say first of all that the grace of God is sufficient to any transgression, and that to judge is wrong,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Prayer opens on something purer and grander than mercy, something that puts aside the consciousness of fault, the residue of judgment that… — 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
“Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. His hair… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“It says Jesus puts His hearer in the role of the father, of the one who forgives. Because if we are, so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put… — 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
