You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Christianity is a life, not a doctrine . . . I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Many times when I stop working on a problem consciously, my mind continues to work on it below the surface. Often solutions… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The assumption behind any theology that I've ever been familiar with is that there is a profound beauty in being, simply in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to… — 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
