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God Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others,…
- One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality…
- In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where…
- The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery;…
- Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image…
- Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this…
- But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell.…
- A God you understood would be less than yourself.
- Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy,
- 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…
- Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.
- 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,…
- The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity...
More God Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- To whom God will, there be the victory. — William Shakespeare
- Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures… — Benjamin Carson
- Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has… — Michele Bachmann
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila