Christianity Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

13 Christianity quotes by Flannery O'Connor

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O'Connor’s brief, razor‑sharp observations on faith are steeped in her signature Southern gothic flair. Though only 13, each line packs a punch, making this a solid starter for readers who love literary depth.

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Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

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“My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.”

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“That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would…

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“Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I…

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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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Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than…

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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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I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that…

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Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by…

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“I don’t really think the standard of judgment, the missing link, you spoke of that you find in my stories emerges from…

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“The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to…

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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…

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“Leave!’ Hazel Motes cried. ‘Go ahead and leave! The truth don’t matter to you. Listen,’ he said, pointing his finger at the…

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“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”

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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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Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories…

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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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I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying…

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She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the…

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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, the present…

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“Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want…

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