Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Dark, Night, Long

• She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Saint, Martyr, Ifs

  Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The Complete Stories”, p.243, Macmillan

• She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Doctors, Saint, Engineers

  Flannery O'Connor (2016). “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, p.64, Faber & Faber

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