I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
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
I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate… — 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 had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it… — 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
Somebody who had read Lila asked me, ‘Why do you write about the problem of loneliness?’ I said: ‘It’s not a problem.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be… — 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
“I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If you read Calvin, for example, he says, How do we know that we are godlike, in the image of God? Well,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I like major theology. I like Karl Barth, and I like John Calvin, and I like Martin Luther. The scale of thinking… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to… — 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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