Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine. — 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
Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty… — 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
There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over… — 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
