“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the… — 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
... 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
You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with. — 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
Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification, — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I could have married again while I was still young. A congregation likes to have a married minister, and I was introduced… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or… — 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
“If we can divinely fed with a morsel and divinely blessed with a touch, then the terrible pleasure we find in a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving. — 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
“But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
--"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. — 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
