“The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“Conviction without experience makes for harshness.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

"Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor (Photo of Flannery as a child-Savannah, GA)

The Christian novelist is distinguished from his pagan colleagues by recognizing sin as sin. According to his heritage he sees it not as sickness or an accident of environment, but as a responsible choice of offense against God which involves his eternal future. Flannery O'Connor

“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“I couldn’t make any judgment on the Summa, except to say this: I read it every night before I go to bed…I feel I can personally guarantee that St. Thomas loved God because for the life of me I cannot help loving St. Thomas.” Flannery O’Connor on St. Thomas Aquinas

"There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

"I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor

"I say many many too many uncharitable things about people everyday. I say them because they make me look clever. Please help me to realize practically how cheap this is." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor #Lent2025

Join us in celebrating Flannery's 100th Birthday at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Atlanta! #FlanneryOConnor

Get ready to celebrate Flannery’s 100th birthday tomorrow by watching “Uncommon Grace: The Life of Flannery O’Connor” for free on PBS. See link below. #FlanneryOConnor pbs.org/video/uncommon…

“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.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the Cross.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“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.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor