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Own Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- 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…
- Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see…
- You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.
- Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never…
- I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by…
- Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning…
- [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.…
- The life you save may very well be your own.
- Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong