Marilynne Robinson: Quotes about love

Marilynne Robinson is American novelist and essayist. Explore interesting quotes on love.
Marilynne Robinson: 102   quotes 5   likes

“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Love , Life , Peace , Feeling

“Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Love

“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 Gilead

Source: Gilead

Love , God , People , Forgetting

“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 Gilead

Source: Gilead

Love , Loyalty

“… but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Love , Imagination

“I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.”

Marilynne Robinson

Source: When I Was a Child I Read Books

Love , God , World , Imagination

“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. 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 Gilead

Source: Gilead

Love , Death , Loyalty

“When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to mitigate.”

Marilynne Robinson book Housekeeping

Source: Housekeeping

Love

“… there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Love