Flannery O'Connor Way Quotations

There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.

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.

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.