Humans Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

— Marilynne Robinson

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

— Marilynne Robinson

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

— Marilynne Robinson

The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light…

— Marilynne Robinson

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

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

The accessibility and effective immortality of actual information is a magnificent phenomenon, a beautiful extension of human consciousness. It is too bad…

— Marilynne Robinson

To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human…

— 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

I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I…

— Marilynne Robinson

The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died,…

— Marilynne Robinson

If you read Calvin, for example, he says, How do we know that we are godlike, in the image of God? Well,…

— Marilynne Robinson

[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where…

— Marilynne Robinson

The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that…

— Marilynne Robinson

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they…

— Marilynne Robinson

That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if…

— Marilynne Robinson