All Flannery O'Connor Quotes
- ...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It… Believe
- You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness is a sign… Account
- Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity. Always Remember
- [Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin.… Blend
- In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his… Act
- You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it… Asking
- When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another,… Alone
- A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will… Any
- There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin. Avoid
- Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a… Book
- When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken.… Anticlimax
- The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you… Able
- There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of… Always Writes
- ...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. Conceived
- Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute… Belief
- A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him. Devil
- Grace changes us and change is painful". Change
- I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. Discipline
- Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots. All
- Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. Acceptance
- Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter. All
- The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled. Full
- Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow. Allow
- The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955) Among
- I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say. Inspirational