That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I am delighted if people find that kind of sustenance in novels, but perhaps it's because they don't read the Scripture that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't think I would worry about an oversaturation of information if it was indeed information. It is the slovenly, hasty traffic… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When the Reformation became established, one of the things that was a question between Catholicism and the Reformation traditions was whether there… — 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
“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
![“We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are permanently entrapped in debt, if they once fall into bankruptcy. The reason that the law was changed in American history - the whole early period of the formation of the…” quote by Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cbe/marilynne-robinson-602_american-history_we-americans-inherited-british-law-which_2630226.jpg)
