Ballads Quote by Marilynne Robinson

“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

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

— Marilynne Robinson

“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

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

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

“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

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

— Marilynne Robinson

“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“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

“Prayer is a discipline in truthfulness, in honesty.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“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

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