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“When I think of all I have to be thankful for I wonder that You just don't kill me now because You've done so much for me already & I haven't been particularly grateful.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Prayer Journal

“Give me the courage to stand the pain to get the grace.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Prayer Journal

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds the emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints . . .”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I do not know You God because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Prayer Journal