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| ba3b851 | The theologian is interested specifically in the modern novel because there he sees reflected the man of our time, the unbeliever, who is nevertheless grappling in a desperate and usually honest way with intense problems of the spirit. | ficiton honesty theology | Flannery O'Connor | |
| c265192 | Do you think, Mr. Motes," she said hoarsely, "that when you're dead, you're blind?" "I hope so," he said after a minute. "Why?" she asked, staring at him. After a while he said, "If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more." The" | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 6634ce7 | Truth-telling is difficult because the varieties of untruth are so many and so well disguised. Lies are hard to identify when they come in the form of apparently innocuous imprecision, socially acceptable slippage, hyperbole masquerading as enthusiasm, or well-placed propaganda. These forms of falsehood are so common, and even so normal, in media-saturated, corporately controlled culture that truth often looks pale, understated, alarmist, r.. | language marilyn-chandler-mcentyre truth writing | Marilyn Chandler McEntyre | |
| f5aa04b | The child came to a stop beside her mother and stared up at her face as if she had never seen it before. It was the face of the new misery she felt, but on her mother it looked old and it looked as if it might have belonged to anybody, a Negro or a European or to Powell himself. The child turned her head quickly, and past the Negroe's ambling figures she could see the column of smoke rising and widening unchecked inside the granite line of .. | fiction short-stories southern | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 75f0150 | Jesus died to redeem you," she said. "I never ast him," he muttered." | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| f79dd82 | There is one myth about writers that I have always felt was particularly pernicious and untruthful--the myth of the "lonely writer," the myth that writing is a lonely occupation, involving much suffering because, supposedly, the writer exists in a state of sensitivity which cuts him off, or raises him above, or casts him below the community around him. This is a common cliche, a hangover probably from the romantic period and the idea of the.. | fiction-writers lonely-writer novelist novelists-life writers-on-writing writing writing-life writing-mindset writing-myths writing-process | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 372a656 | Sin is a great thing as long as it's recognized. It leads a good many people to God who wouldn't get there otherwise. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 53190e0 | You act like you think you got wiser blood than anybody else," he said, "but you ain't! I'm the one has it. Not you. Me." Haze didn't say anything. He stood there for an instant, small in the" | Flannery O’Connor | ||
| fb8ca6d | Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead." The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He thrown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can--by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure b.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 9299279 | As Flannery O'Connor wrote, "Religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it's a cross."13" | Terryl L. Givens | ||
| 1ca0a18 | I never argue," Jacobs said. "That's because you don't know this kind of ignorance," Rayber explained. "You've never experienced it." Jacobs snorted. "Oh yes I have," he said. "What happened?" "I never argue." "But you know you're right," Rayber persisted. "I never argue." "Well, I'm going to argue," Rayber said. "I'm going to say the right thing as fast as they can say the wrong. It'll be a question of speed. Understand," he went on, "this.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| cc85d00 | A cloud, the exact color of the boy's hat and shaped like a turnip, had descended over the sun, and another, worse looking, crouched behind the car. Mr. Shiftlet felt that the rottenness of the world was about to engulf him. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 0ced5a4 | Flannery O'Connor, who wrote about one of her characters, Hazel Motes, that "he knew that the best way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin."2 If you are avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless and save you, then ironically, you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper but you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God. You are trying to .. | Timothy Keller | ||
| e6f36d9 | There were two round photographs of an old man and woman with collapsed mouths and another picture of a man whose eyebrows dashed out of two bushes of hair and clashed in a heap on the bridge of his nose; the rest of his face stuck out like a bare cliff to fall from. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 1ac1e41 | Across the river there was a low red and gold grove of sassafras with hills of dark blue trees behind it and an occasional pine jutting over the skyline. Behind, in the distance, the city rose like a cluster of warts on the side of the mountain. The birds revolved downward and dropped lightly in the top of the highest pine and sat hunch-shouldered as if they were supporting the sky. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 62fbc72 | He was bald-headed except for a little fringe of rust-colored hair and his face was nearly the same color as the unpaved roads and washed like them with ruts and gullys. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 4295b4c | When he was four years old, his father had brought him home a tin box from the penitentiary. It was orange and had a picture of some peanut brittle on the outside of it and green letters that said, "A NUTTY SURPRISE!" When Enoch had opened it, a coiled piece of steel had sprung out at him and broken off the ends of his two front teeth. His life was full of so many happenings like that that it would seem he should have been more sensitive to.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 2b623f2 | The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." --FLANNERY O'CONNOR "I" | Thrity Umrigar | ||
| d0d4296 | If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 2c81071 | If we forget our past," the speaker was saying, "we won't remember our future and it will be as well for we won't have one." The General heard some of these words gradually. He had forgotten history and he didn't intend to remember it again. He had forgotten the name and face of his wife and the names and faces of his children or even if he had a wife and children, and he had forgotten the names of places and the places themselves and what .. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| d97ccf6 | Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom. | b-a-s-s greenleaf o-henry-memorial | Flannery O'Connor | |
| a55a3a5 | Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the distance ahead of him. "Help, help!" he shouted, but his voice was thin, scarcely a thread of sound. The lights drifted farther away the faster he ran and his feet moved numbly as if they carried him nowhere. The tide of darkness seemed to sweep him back to her, postponing from moment to moment his entry into the world of guilt a.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 6082ce2 | No," he said. Then he drew breath and said, "You got a nice place here. It's a nice part of the country. I'm sorry if I've give you a lot of trouble getting sick. It was my fault trying to be friendly with that nigger." And I'm a damned liar besides, he said to himself to kill the outrageous taste such a statement made in his mouth." | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 8c918ed | Old Dudley would get out his gun and take it apart and, as Rabie cleaned the pieces, would explain the mechanism to him. Then he'd put it together again. Rabie always marveled at the way he could put it together again. Old Dudley would have liked to have explained New York to Rabie. If he could have showed it to Rabie, it wouldn't have been so big--he wouldn't have felt pressed down every time he went out in it. "It ain't so big," he would .. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| ee35815 | Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one."--Flannery O'Connor" | Nicole Archer | ||
| 1f91a37 | time goes forward, it don't go backward and unless you take what's offered you, you'll find yourself out in the cold pitch black and just how far do you think you'll get? | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 0dec09d | I am going to be the World Authority on Peafowl, and I hope to be offered a chair some day at the Chicken College. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 008ada7 | Everyone knows that for a woman to conceive in the act of coition she, as well as the man. must be satisfied. Is that not true? Of corse it is true. | martial-satisfaction | Robin Maxwell | |
| af9d440 | Find my weak points, but more importantly, find yours. | fiction mystery mystery-novels suspense | Rene Gutteridge | |
| 8ef8beb | One is forced to examine one's life when trapped in the wall by a Murphy bed. | humor rene-gutteridge | Cheryl McKay | |
| bace6a3 | It was the strangest feeling, to be convicted but not condemned. God had torn him down but then had slowly built him back up. He had crushed him and then restored him. The more honest Clay became, the more God revealed to him the condition of his heart--a heart born into darkness, a heart that had trusted in the ways of the world. | Rene Gutteridge | ||
| 652c6ea | Yet every great storyteller knows it's the fine art of taking me by the hand and showing me that has the most effect on a reader's soul. It's how writers slip it all into us while we're not looking. While we're reading words, they're making magic happen, and when that magic lands right in our hearts, we're theirs forever. | Rene Gutteridge | ||
| d46bb97 | for many people conversion is simply a matter of aligning their religious life with that of their family, friends, and neighbors who already have joined--thus creating a self-sustaining network of growth. Finally, for many people of privilege and ambition, their abandonment of paganism was a matter of opportunism--many people professed Christianity or were discreet about their paganism in order to gain social and political advantages. | Rodney Stark | ||
| 54efa44 | Thus it is that the statement on the Jews issued by Vatican II in 1965 was nothing more (or less) than a forceful restatement of the traditional church teachings in language appropriate for the time. Unfortunately, this particular manifestation of anti-Catholic history lives on with renewed venom in recent indictments of Pope Pius XII as Hitler's collaborator in the Holocaust, which also is said to be quite in keeping with the pope's suppor.. | Rodney Stark | ||
| b40cc0d | SCIENCE AROSE ONLY IN Europe because only medieval Europeans believed that science was possible and desirable. And the basis of their belief was their image of God and his creation. This was dramatically asserted to a distinguished audience of scholars attending the 1925 Lowell Lectures at Harvard by the great philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), who explained that science developed in Europe because of the wide.. | Rodney Stark | ||
| e6ad520 | IN WHAT CAME TO BE KNOWN as his farewell address, Muhammad is said to have told his followers: "I was ordered to fight all men until they say 'There is no god but Allah.'"1 This is entirely consistent with the Qur'an (9:5) : "[S]lay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them [captive], and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush." In this spirit, Muhammad's heirs set out to conquer the world." | Rodney Stark | ||
| 43b3c46 | Now, shouts of "Dieu li volt!" (God wills it!) began to spread through the crowd, and men began to cut up cloaks and other pieces of cloth to make crosses and sew them against their chests. Everyone agreed that the next year they would set out for the Holy Land. And they did." -- | Rodney Stark | ||
| 18f509b | The European Middle Ages collected innovations from all over the world, especially from China, and built them into a new unity which formed the basis of our modern civilization. | Rodney Stark | ||
| 10a13c1 | But following these Stone Age discoveries, progress was slow. It is estimated that in terms of the standard of living, things were pretty much the same for the next seven thousand years.1 People ate about the same amount, lived about the same lifespan, and buried about the same high percentage of their children. Even in the West, as recently as the seventeenth century life was hard and short. But then an era of immense and stunningly rapid .. | Rodney Stark | ||
| 83b5836 | In contrast, a number of innovations can plausibly be attributed to the Little Ice Age: glass windowpanes, storm doors, skis, ice skates, sunglasses (first used for preventing snow blindness), distilled liquor, trousers, knitted clothing, buttons, and chimneys. | Rodney Stark | ||
| 712a713 | Science arose in the West--and only in the West--precisely because the Judeo-Christian conception of God encouraged and even demanded this pursuit. | Rodney Stark | ||
| 6c4727e | The Greeks were the first people in the world to play, and they played on a great scale. All over Greece there were games, all sorts of games; athletic contests of every description ... contests in music, where one side outsung the other; in dancing ... games so many that one grows weary with the list of them.... Wretched people, toiling people, do not play. Nothing like the Greek games is conceivable in Egypt or Mesopotamia.... Play died w.. | Rodney Stark | ||
| 33ee415 | The Byzantine governor assembled an army considerably larger than that of the Normans and rebels. He then sent a herald to the opposing camp offering either the Normans' safe return to Lombard territory or battle. In response, an enormous Norman knight smashed his mailed fist on the head of the Byzantine herald's horse; the horse fell dead on the spot. (Yes, this actually happened, historians agree.)23 The battle began the next day. | Rodney Stark | ||
| 218f861 | only One True God can provide an adequate religious basis for the moral order. Divine essences such as the Tao do not command us to love one another. The "first mover" does not forbid us to covet another's spouse. Paul Tillich's conception of God as the "ground of our being" is not a being and therefore is incapable of having, let alone expressing, moral concerns. As for the little "beings" who populate pagan pantheons, they seem to concern.. | Rodney Stark |