Flannery O'Connor

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

Dear God, I cannot love Thee the way I want to. You are the slim crescent of a moon that I see and my self is the earth's shadow that keeps me from seeing all the moon.

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

I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.