“I have spent years of my life lovingly absorbed in the thoughts and perceptions of . . . people who do not exist.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“For why do our thoughts turn to some gesture of hand, the fall of a sleeve, some corner of a room on… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Now we are more inclined to speak of information than of learning, and to think of the means by which information is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I believe that reality is vastly richer than the cursory attention we usually give it permits us to understand. I like to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be more miraculous than the fact that we have a consciousness that makes the world intelligible to us and are… — 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
