Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Eternity

Quotes about: Eternity

• The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Peculiar, Location, Problem

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.59, Macmillan

• But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, People, Heaven

• ... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Men, Afterlife, Personality

  Flannery O'Connor (1993). “"A Good Man is Hard to Find"”, p.59, Rutgers University Press

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