620 Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

The night was windy, full of tree sounds. The moon was gone and there was rain, so fine that it was only a tingle on the skin.

That’s one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don’t let them.

It is all still new to me. I have lived my life on the prairie and a line of oak trees can still astonish me.

When you’re scalded, touch hurts, it makes no difference if it’s kindly meant. Now.

When the lord says you must ‘become as one of these little ones,’ I take Him to mean you must be stripped of all the accretions of smugness and pretence and triviality.

These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you’re making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.

Thinking that we know more than we do, therefore rejecting what we are given as experience, blinds us to our ignorance, which is the deep darkness where truth abides. And our wealth of ignorance grows and multiplies. Much.

The accessibility and effective immortality of actual information is a magnificent phenomenon, a beautiful extension of human consciousness. It is too bad people find so many ways to abuse the internet, but that’s just how things are.

To value one another is our greatest safety, and to indulge in fear and contempt is our gravest error.