Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not… — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. — Flannery O'Connor Christ Copy Share Image
Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes. — Flannery O'Connor Children Copy Share Image
“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth… — Flannery O'Connor Right now Copy Share Image
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than… — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason… — Flannery O'Connor Ability Copy Share Image
As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the… — Flannery O'Connor Blood Copy Share Image
It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too. — Flannery O'Connor Georgia Copy Share Image
When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one… — Flannery O'Connor Being real Copy Share Image
“With a volley of blasts it emerged from the shed, moving in a fierce and stately way. Mr. Shiftlet was in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image… — Flannery O'Connor Backwoods Copy Share Image
“Two people can remain 'in love'—a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism—only if their common desire for each other unites in… — Flannery O'Connor Love Copy Share Image
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing… — Flannery O'Connor Cases Copy Share Image
There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You… — Flannery O'Connor Abundance Copy Share Image
She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it… — Flannery O'Connor Believe Copy Share Image
“Listen, friends," said the disciple confidently, " [...] I didn't have a friend in the world. Do you know what it's like… — Flannery O'Connor Friendship Copy Share Image
...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it. — Flannery O'Connor Cherish Copy Share Image
“That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. — Flannery O'Connor Inspirational Copy Share Image
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth. — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“His black hat sat on his head with a careful, placed expression and his face had a fragile look as if it… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
