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Marilynne Robinson Quotes

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything Picture Quote #1

A letter makes ordinary things seem important Picture Quote #1

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it Picture Quote #1

... not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act Picture Quote #1

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was Picture Quote #1

Grace has a grand laughter in it Picture Quote #1

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Vision sometimes comes in a memory Picture Quote #1

There’s so much to be grateful for, words are poor things Picture Quote #1

Light is constant, we just turn over in it Picture Quote #1

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time Picture Quote #1

Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true Picture Quote #1

You have to live with your mind your whole life Picture Quote #1

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You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with Picture Quote #1

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me Picture Quote #1

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification Picture Quote #1

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension Picture Quote #1

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music Picture Quote #1

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 or so Picture Quote #1

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The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I’ve thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. ‘The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.’ That’s a fact Picture Quote #1

Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home Picture Quote #1

I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence Picture Quote #1

. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father’s love and our deserving Picture Quote #1

When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson Picture Quote #1

...when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish them AND ourselves, and preclude our having a part in the creation of the highest wealth, the testimony to the mysterious beauty of life we all value in psalms and tragedies and epics and meditations, in short stories and novels Picture Quote #1

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I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine Picture Quote #1

I’m a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it’s one of the best things that we have. I don’t believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don’t believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people’s innermost thoughts are their own Picture Quote #1

I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle Picture Quote #1

I’ll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I’ll pray, and then I’ll sleep Picture Quote #1

The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence Picture Quote #1

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification, Picture Quote #1

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For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) A letter makes ordinary things seem important (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) ... not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) Grace has a grand laughter in it (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) Vision sometimes comes in a memory (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) There’s so much to be grateful for, words are poor things (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) Light is constant, we just turn over in it (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) You have to live with your mind your whole life (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) 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 or so (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I’ve thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. ‘The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.’ That’s a fact (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father’s love and our deserving (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) ...when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish them AND ourselves, and preclude our having a part in the creation of the highest wealth, the testimony to the mysterious beauty of life we all value in psalms and tragedies and epics and meditations, in short stories and novels. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) I’m a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it’s one of the best things that we have. I don’t believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don’t believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people’s innermost thoughts are their own. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) I’ll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I’ll pray, and then I’ll sleep. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes) Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification, (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)

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