Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again. Marilynne Robinson More Quotes by Marilynne Robinson More Quotes From Marilynne Robinson Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification. Marilynne Robinson exercise may fiction It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them. Marilynne Robinson father people enemy Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense. Marilynne Robinson posture defense said 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 faithful home mean I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts. Marilynne Robinson nursing heart people 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 offense virtue knows It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time. Marilynne Robinson leisure important men When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. Marilynne Robinson what-matters ordinary remember Rejoice with those who rejoice." I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep. Marilynne Robinson rejoice difficult found Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any. Marilynne Robinson vision loneliness faces 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 wipe tears faces I don't think I would worry about an oversaturation of information if it was indeed information. It is the slovenly, hasty traffic in cliché and sensationalism and bad reasoning that bothers me. I love finding arcane primary texts on the web. The people who think to put them up are heroes of mine. Marilynne Robinson hero people thinking Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes are worn and hassocks are sat upon and finally everything is left where it was and the spirit passes on, just as the wind in the orchard picks up the leaves from the ground as if there were no other pleasure in the world but brown leaves, as if it would deck, clothe, flesh itself in flourishes of dusty brown apple leaves and then drops them all in a heap at the side of the house and goes on. Marilynne Robinson apples shoes wind When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain. Marilynne Robinson expectations mother waiting There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded books. Why scold the impulse to enjoy language and narrative in whatever form it takes? Marilynne Robinson reading worry book Light is constant, we just turn over in it. Marilynne Robinson turns constant light Many times when I stop working on a problem consciously, my mind continues to work on it below the surface. Often solutions come on me quite by surprise. I've learned over time to allow that to happen, rather than to feel that I can simply solve the problem by continuous, grueling effort. Marilynne Robinson effort problem mind Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true. Marilynne Robinson acknowledge doe fiction When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone. And I believe they may be the things that mean most to you, and that even your own child would have to know in order to know you well at all. Marilynne Robinson mean believe children 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 growing-up strong thinking
