“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
Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I am trying to describe what I have never before attempted to put into words. I have made myself a little weary… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“...you never do know the actual nature even of your own experience. Or perhaps it has no fixed and certain nature.” — 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
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
That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“It is the elegance of nature that creates even the appearance of simplicity... It is not respectable to say that an organism… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its wealth of error as well… — 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
“If you want to inform yourselves as to the nature of hell, don't hold your hand in a candle flame, just ponder… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Need can blossom into all the compensations it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“It is...difficult to describe someone, since memories are by their nature fragmented, isolated, and arbitrary as glimpses one has at night through… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when… — 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
