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Flannery O'Connor

"The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development."

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"The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development."

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Donna Grant

"Look to the Lord and the power of His grace."

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Donna Grant

"I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth."

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Donna Grant

"Freedom of religion is not enough; we need the extinction of it, because no one has turned to be a religious by their own choice."

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Donna Grant

"All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test-if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit."

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Donna Grant

"Soul winning for Christ Jesus is a great business everyone must endeavor to start and keep it diligently."

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Donna Grant

"Lord I thank you for the gift of breath, eyes to see, ears to hear, tongue to taste, nose to smell, mouth to speak, face to smile, voice to sing, body to dance, legs to walk, mind to think and hands to write."

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Donna Grant

"Christians are the hope of any country."

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Donna Grant

"Some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns..."

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Donna Grant

"Any bridge you refuse to burn gives Satan an invitation and re-entry point into your life."

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Donna Grant

"Religion (Dharma) begins with an obliging nature."

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Flannery O'Connor
"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."

Life

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Flannery O'Connor
"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."

Will

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Flannery O'Connor
"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

Writer

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Flannery O'Connor
"I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing."

Nature

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Flannery O'Connor
"To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks."

Self

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Flannery O'Connor
"Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look."

Morality

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Flannery O'Connor
"The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be captured in an interpretation. If teachers are in the habit of approaching a story as if it were a research problem for which any answer is believable so long as it is not obvious, then I think students will never learn to enjoy fiction. Too much interpretation is certainly worse than too little, and where feeling for a story is absent, theory will not supply it."

Literature

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Flannery O'Connor
"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."

Self

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Flannery O'Connor
"Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is presented in such a way that the reader has the sense that it is unfolding around him. This doesn't mean he has to identify himself with the character or feel compassion for the character or anything like that. It just means that fiction has to be largely presented rather than reported. Another way to say it is that though fiction is a narrative art, it relies heavily on the element of drama."

Fiction

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Flannery O'Connor
"Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car."

Life

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