Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of… — 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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