There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this. — 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
...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 Copy Share Image
... but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Open a book and a voice speaks. A world, more or less alien or welcoming, emerges to enrich a reader’s store of… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“All bread is the bread of heaven, her father used to say. It expresses the will of God to sustain us in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to… — 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
“...when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I've shepherded a good many people through their lives, I've baptized babies by the hundred, and all that time I have felt… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“If the Lord chooses to make nothing of our transgressions, then they are nothing. Or whatever reality they have is trivial and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Since supper was three kinds of casserole with two kinds of fruit salad, with cake and pie for dessert, I gathered 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
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 Copy Share Image
“I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected -… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“It has seemed to me sometimes as though the Lord breathes on this poor gray ember of Creation and it turns to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“If there is anything in the life of any culture or period that gives good grounds for alarm, it is the rise… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I have been thinking about existence lately. In fact, I have been so full of admiration for existence that I have hardly… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I have spent years of my life lovingly absorbed in the thoughts and perceptions of . . . people who do not exist.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Christianity is a life, not a doctrine . . . I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The minute that you start thinking about someone in the whole circumstance of his life to the extent that you can, he… — 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
“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
