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Thinking Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a…
- All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of…
- The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is…
- I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it.…
- ...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see…
- I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.
- In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to…
- Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
- I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
- 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…
- 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…
- What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
- Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.
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