All Flannery O'Connor Quotes
- I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I… Believe
- Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and… Dark
- He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him. Blank
- I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way. Blind
- St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour… Any
- Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. Cannot Fathom
- People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at… Any
- The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the… Ayn Rand
- Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If… Away Everything
- In yourself right now is all the place you've got. All
- He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his… Balance
- Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay… Faith
- There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what… Dramatically
- I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes… Been
- She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint... Doctor
- Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was a kind of… Absolute
- Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him. Depressed
- She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true. Any
- That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of… All
- The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. Distorted
- It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church. Began
- The life you save may very well be your own. Inspirational
- [To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The… All
- There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not… Certain
- Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character. Believable