I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I… — 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
We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that… — 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
![“We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are permanently entrapped in debt, if they once fall into bankruptcy. The reason that the law was changed in American history - the whole early period of the formation of the…” quote by Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cbe/marilynne-robinson-602_american-history_we-americans-inherited-british-law-which_2630226.jpg)
