Marilynne Robinson Quotes

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

Prayer means dependence on the Lord.

Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

Prayer is first and foremost an act of love

He prayeth best who loveth best.

What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Where love is, there God is also.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

God is very important to me. I love her.

I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!

God is love, love is bhakti and bhakti our connection to God.

All we know how to do is write music and love God.

(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.

I think there is no place in the world where I feel closer to the Lord than in one of His holy temples.