Marilynne Robinson Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

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

  Marilynne Robinson

  Love Is, What Matters, Grace

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.209, Macmillan

• 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

  Religious, Thinking, Imagination

• There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Errors, Order, Grace

• Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.246, Macmillan

• I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God’s grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Children, Writing, Men

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.52, Macmillan

• Grace has a grand laughter in it.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Laughter, Grace

• ...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Miracle, Grace, Doe

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.52, Macmillan

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