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 (b. 1943), Schriftstellerin, Essayistin
Source: When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays (2012)
Topics: Meaning & Identity, Time & Transience, Wisdom & Understanding
Occasions: For Reflection
Marilynne Robinson
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.
All quotes by Marilynne Robinson (26)
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Augustine of Hippo
Jesus calls us not to a new religion, but to life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen
To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inner dignity remains, even when performance capacity and social role decline.
Anselm Grün
There is a God, and I'm not him.
John Mark Comer
God has put eternity into our hearts and filled it with longing.
John Piper
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson