Bible Quote by Flannery O'Connor

“Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to…

— Flannery O'Connor

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances…

— Boris Kodjoe

As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted…

— H. L. Mencken

“Being Southern isn't talking with an accent...or rocking on a porch while drinking sweet tea, or knowing how to tell a good story. It's…

— Jan Norris

I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

— Flannery O'Connor

“The ultimate symbol of our religious devotion isn’t our churches, though it’s often beside them. In the South, we understand cemeteries as our final…

— Deborah Ford

Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted…

— Carson McCullers

Too many American (and other) Christians revel in feelings and/or morality and don't care to develop a biblically-shaped Zeitgeist or worldview. The result is…

— Roger E. Olson

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

— Frances Mayes

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic…

— Dean Koontz

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

— Michael Shaara

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek