Flannery O'Connor Church Quotations

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.

It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.

For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.