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
“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'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
“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
“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
...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
“It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.” — 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
“...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
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
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
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 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
“Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.” — 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 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
“There’s a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much… — 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
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
“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
