Flannery OConnor Quotes about Evil

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Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

Flannery O'Connor

Evil, Culture, Good And Evil

Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.200, Macmillan

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. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.

Flannery O'Connor

Fall, Evil, Damnation

Flannery OConnor Quotes about Evil

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