Catholicism Quote by Flannery O'Connor Download Open image ““Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.”” — Flannery O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catholicism Pride Sin Smugness
“So I sit and endure the stares and the pangs and twinges of Catholic guilt, knowing that I am doing the right thing if… — Pete Hautman Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to make peace with the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the permanent enemies of all that is decent in… — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
“Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“It's a joyful thing, being a Catholic. I can't even think about sex without thinking about bodily waste.” — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a priest, kindness is a bishop, faith is a pope, and love is a religion.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“result, he’s firmly persuaded that the Catholic Church must always speak its truths to the surrounding culture, without adjusting those teachings to make them… — Robert E. Barron Copy Share Image
“He actually became my sin so that I could literally become His righteousness.” — J.D. Greear Copy Share Image
“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how to cure the source-itis except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and darkness, rising… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live… — Bible Copy Share Image
Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie:… — Grimes Copy Share Image
Forgive my friends and me for every time we have looked at someone different and considered her or him to be of lesser quality.… — Jos Chp 2 Copy Share Image
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There's this great fear, and I find, lack of knowledge of Catholicism, just like I'm ignorant of other things. I think we should all… — Catherine Hicks Copy Share Image
