“Your mother asked him if he would like to say grace, and he did, with an elegant simplicity that seemed almost wasted… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Her father told his children to pray for patience, for courage, for kindness, for clarity, for trust, for gratitude. Those prayers will… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“...her father was soothed by these attentions, as if pain were an appetite for comforting of just this kind.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness… — 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… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I mean only respect when I say that your mother has always struck me as someone with whom the Lord might have… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“He was the measure of the failure of his father's body, and also perhaps a portending of the failure of his own.~” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“All bread is the bread of heaven, her father used to say. It expresses the will of God to sustain us in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“It says Jesus puts His hearer in the role of the father, of the one who forgives. Because if we are, so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Your mother goes to the public library, which has been down on its luck for a long time, like most things around… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“So finally I asked my father in the most offhand way imaginable what exactly would happen to a cat if one were… — 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
“Why should a family with eight rambunctious children bother owning anything that could be damaged? They sat on the arms of their… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“At first I thought I saw the sun setting in the east . . . . Then I realized that what I… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“As I have told you, I myself was the good son, so to speak, the one who never left his father's house… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. His hair… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“She thought, If I or my father or any Boughton has ever stirred the Lord's compassion, then Jack will be all right.… — 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
“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
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