Flannery O'Connor, The Habit Of Being: Letters Of Flannery O'Connor Quotes

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

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

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy.