- 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 best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
- I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.
- A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.
- I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.
- 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 recognize one.
- We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord.
- I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
- You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.
- Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative, they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.
10 inspirational flannery o’connor quotes on success
