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Intrusions of grace…

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

— Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose  <link>

The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery: that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.

— Flannery O’Connor, “The Church and the Fiction Writer”, 1957  <link>

What people don’t realise is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. It is much harder to believe than not to believe.

— Flannery O’Connor (via)  <link>

Mystery isn’t something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge.

— Flannery O’Connor (via)  <link>

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

— Flannery O’Connor  <link>

The truth doesn’t change according to our ability to stomach it.

— Flannery O’Connor  <link>