pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet. — 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
Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere." It is worth… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes my doubt seems intuitive, but most likely it derives from an implausibility or a logical problem I may at first find… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother… — 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
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
“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
![“If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the code of Hammurabi. Presumably it is because Moses is still felt to make some claim on us that this project of discrediting his law is persisted in with such…” quote by Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c8c/marilynne-robinson-602_ancient_if-these-laws-in-the-bible-belonged-to-a_2143870.jpg)
