Prayer Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

11 Prayer quotes by Marilynne Robinson

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Robinson’s reflections on prayer are marked by quiet intensity and literary elegance. Eleven brief excerpts provide a window into her measured, reflective approach to faith.

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“Prayer is a discipline in truthfulness, in honesty.”

Marilynne Robinson

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For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

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“Much more prayer is called for, clearly, but first I will take a nap.”

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That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

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I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered…

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“Her father told his children to pray for patience, for courage, for kindness, for clarity, for trust, for gratitude. Those prayers will…

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“Prayer opens on something purer and grander than mercy, something that puts aside the consciousness of fault, the residue of judgment that…

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“I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be…

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She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord…

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God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the…

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“For me writing has always felt like praying, even when I wasn't writing prayers, as I was often enough. You feel that…

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I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

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“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.”

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“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And…

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“Prayer is a discipline in truthfulness, in honesty.”

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“The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.’ There are pleasures to be found where you…

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I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are…

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Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to…

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“My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.”

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“Cranky old Leviticus gave us—gave Christ—not only “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” but also the rather forgotten “Thou shalt love the stranger…

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