For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to… — 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
The accessibility and effective immortality of actual information is a magnificent phenomenon, a beautiful extension of human consciousness. It is too bad… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human… — 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
[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If you read Calvin, for example, he says, How do we know that we are godlike, in the image of God? Well,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if… — 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
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