Rita Johnson’s Reviews > The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor > Status Update

"For O'Connor, the real horror was never violence or deformity, but damnation. Horror that awakens a soul to its own danger and prepares it to receive grace is no horror, but a mercy. 'The devil,' she wrote, 'accomplishes a good deal of groundwork that seems to be necessary before grace is effective.'"