Truth Quote by Flannery O'Connor — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.”

“He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.”

“Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.”

“When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.”

“The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.”

“Hell is truth seen too late.”

“Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember.”

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

“There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone”

“I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.”

“The Christian God is interested in relationship with us, and not just relationship, but union, and not just union, but such a union that everything He is and has—all glory and fullness, all joy and beauty and unbridled life—is to be shared with us and to become as much ours as it is His. The plan from the beginning, in the Christian vision, is that God would give Himself to us, and nothing less, so that we could be filled to overflowing with the divine life.”