Flannery OConnor Quotes about Grace

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All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Flannery O'Connor

Catholic, Grace, Human Nature

Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.307, Macmillan

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

Reading, Writing, Grace

Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.118, Macmillan

Grace changes us and change is painful".

Flannery O'Connor

Southern, Grace, Painful

Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

Flannery O'Connor

Giving, Grace, Weakness

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

Flannery O'Connor

Eye, Grace, Feelings

Flannery O'Connor (1993). “"A Good Man is Hard to Find"”, p.58, Rutgers University Press

Flannery OConnor Quotes about Grace

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