“Much more prayer is called for, clearly, but first I will take a nap.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be… — 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
“Prayer opens on something purer and grander than mercy, something that puts aside the consciousness of fault, the residue of judgment that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“For me writing has always felt like praying, even when I wasn't writing prayers, as I was often enough. You feel 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
