Best Marilynne Robinson Quotations
- It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years… Been
- These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to… Better
- I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when… All
- A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves… Air
- There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient Everyone
- She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . .… Been
- There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order… Defend
- Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes… All
- In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad… All
- I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will… Abiding
- Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible… Abandoned
- Vision sometimes comes in a memory. Inspirational
- Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a… Dancing
- Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had… Alchemy
- That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly… All
- It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it .… Amazing
- There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency… Apparent
- It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them. Feeling
- What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be. Embarrassment
- I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things. Argument
- Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember… All
- Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. Grace
- To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I… Almost Everything
- It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It… Both
- Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you… Admire
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