Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to… — 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
The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to… — 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
“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
