Grace Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

“How I wish you could have known me in my strength.”

— Marilynne Robinson

Grace has a grand laughter in it.

— Marilynne Robinson

“It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.”

— Marilynne Robinson

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

— Marilynne Robinson

...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

“Prayer opens on something purer and grander than mercy, something that puts aside the consciousness of fault, the residue of judgment that…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Your mother asked him if he would like to say grace, and he did, with an elegant simplicity that seemed almost wasted…

— Marilynne Robinson

“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

“Let me say first of all that the grace of God is sufficient to any transgression, and that to judge is wrong,…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. His hair…

— Marilynne Robinson

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

“It says Jesus puts His hearer in the role of the father, of the one who forgives. Because if we are, so…

— Marilynne Robinson

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be…

— Marilynne Robinson

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must…

— Marilynne Robinson

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

“When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put…

— Marilynne Robinson