Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson (b. 1943) — Schriftstellerin, Essayistin · Kongregationalistisch (Calvinistisch geprägt) · USA
Marilynne Robinson ist eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Essayistin, die viele Jahre an der University of Iowa lehrte. Bekanntheit erlangte sie durch ihren mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichneten Roman „Gilead“ sowie theologische Essays, in denen sie aus calvinistischer Perspektive über Gnade, Vergebung und menschliche Würde reflektiert. Bibellesern eröffnet ihr Werk eine literarische Auseinandersetzung mit biblischen Texten und regt zur Reflexion über theologische Traditionen an.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Wisdom & Understanding, Meaning & Identity, Ethical Questions, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Grace & Redemption, Hope & Confidence, Joy & Gratitude, Faith & Trust
Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.
Marilynne Robinson
He will wipe the tears from all faces. It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required.
Marilynne Robinson
Weary or bitter or bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.
Marilynne Robinson
Love is holy because it is like grace—the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
Marilynne Robinson
With all respect to heaven, the scene of the miracle is here, among us.
Marilynne Robinson
Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting.
Marilynne Robinson
There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.
Marilynne Robinson
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 they sing in the streets.
Marilynne Robinson
I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God's grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.
Marilynne Robinson
Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.
Marilynne Robinson
Grace has a grand laughter in it.
Marilynne Robinson
I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes.
Marilynne Robinson
It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.
Marilynne Robinson
Touch a limit of your understanding and it falls away, to reveal mystery upon mystery.
Marilynne Robinson
Christian ethics goes steadfastly against the grain of what we consider human nature: the first will be last, to him who asks give, turn the other cheek, judge not.
Marilynne Robinson
This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.
Marilynne Robinson
To value one another is our greatest safety, and to indulge in fear and contempt is our gravest error.
Marilynne Robinson
It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.
Marilynne Robinson
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
Marilynne Robinson
A society is moving toward dangerous ground when loyalty to the truth is seen as disloyalty to some supposedly higher interest. How many times has history taught us this?
Marilynne Robinson
I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.
Marilynne Robinson
When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.
Marilynne Robinson
Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word: Read.
Marilynne Robinson
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
Marilynne Robinson
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.
Marilynne Robinson
The difference between theism and new atheist science is the difference between mystery and certainty. Certainty is a relic, an atavism, a husk we ought to have outgrown. Mystery is openness to possibility, even at the scale now implied by physics and cosmology.
Marilynne Robinson
Sources: britannica.com, nd.edu, theamericanconservative.com, washington.edu
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