Believe Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

17 Believe quotes by Flannery O'Connor

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Flannery O'Connor’s 17 passages weave belief into her distinctive Southern prose, delivering a subtle, sometimes unsettling look at faith.

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“I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in anything.”

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It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.

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She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it…

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Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

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If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.

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I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way…

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I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

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It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you…

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That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with…

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Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly…

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I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship…

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One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation,…

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I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or…

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There is a question whether faith can or is supposed to be emotionally satisfying. I must say that the thought of everyone…

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But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I…

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One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer…

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...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we…

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Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

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To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

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“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.”

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“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.”

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