The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for… — 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
Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, "Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to… — 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
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
There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
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
If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy,… — 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
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
The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can… — 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
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Religion, if it is genuine, is so profoundly interwoven with individual thought and experience that it is no more exhaustible than consciousness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the… — 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
“It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm really disturbed by the degree to which I don't hear people saying, "Are we leaving the world better than we found… — 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
