Marilynne Robinson Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: 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

  Religious, Thinking, Imagination

• I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Family, Loyalty, Thinking

• It's a difficult thing to describe theology, what it means and how it disciplines thinking. Certainly, theology is the level at which the highest inquiry into meaning and ethics and beauty coincides with the largest-scale imagination of the nature of reality itself.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Mean, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. He is very interesting and important because he was also a metaphysician. He knew a great deal about what was, for him, contemporary science. He was very much influenced by Isaac Newton, for example. There are planets and meteors and so on showing up in his hymns very often. But, again, the scale of his religious imagination corresponds to a very generously scaled scientific imagination.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Religious, Hymns, Imagination

  Source: www.pbs.org

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