Catholic Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

10 Catholic quotes by Flannery O'Connor

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Flannery O'Connor’s Southern voice often wrestles with grace. In this brief collection of ten lines you’ll sense her keen eye for moral tension, a compact glimpse of her Catholic sensibility.

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“Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.”

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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 a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an…

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All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

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“Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar…

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When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one…

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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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“When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully,…

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The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the…

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The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image…

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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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“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and darkness, rising…

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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless…

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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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