Marilynne Robinson Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• 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

  Shoes, Apples, Wind

• I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Art, Believe, Genius

  Marilynne Robinson (2014). “The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought”, p.4, Picador

• God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the presense of the Lord, who is with us always. He said, Love is what it amounts to, a loftier love, and pleasure in a loving presence.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Love Is, Doe, Needs

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