Quotes by Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books

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I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly c — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself. — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
Over the years we seem to have become habituated, even addicted, to the notion of radical threat, threat of the kind tha — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
What if good institutions were in fact the product of good intentions? What if the cynicism that is supposed to be rigor — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
The embrace of essential beastliness, made scientific and respectable by a reading of Darwin that may or may not have do — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
In the First Epistle of Peter we are told to honor everyone, and I have never been in a situation where I felt this inst — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to fi — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes the way in which it i — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
No one can read the books of Moses with any care without understanding that law can be a means of grace. Certainly this — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
The alienation, the downright visceral frustration, of the new American ideologues, the bone in their craw, is the unack — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I learned to assume that loneliness should be in part pleasure, sensit — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
The provisions for the poor which structure both land ownership and the sacred calendar in ancient Israel, the rights of — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
There is clearly a feeling abroad that God smiled on our beginnings, and that we should return to them as we can. If we — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
Someone told me recently that a commentator or some sort had said, "The United States is in spiritual free-fall." When p — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to balance its books. Afte — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
At the very best there are two major problems with ideology. The first is that it does not represent or conform to or ev — Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books