We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be… — 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
Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“from HOUSEKEEPING, by Marilynne Robinson: There is remembrance, and communion, altogether human and unhallowed. For families will not be broken. Curse and… — 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
