I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Most institutions of higher learning in the West were founded by and for religious denominations. The supposed alienation of education and faith… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think the connection between poetry and theology, which is profound in Western tradition - there is a great deal of wonderful… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I really don't know why people have so much trouble now writing about religious faith. It is true that clichés can override… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Of course, mysticism is very hard to isolate because, given the kind of consciousness that I was sort of instructed in as… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness… — 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
