"I feel I can personally guarantee that St. Thomas (Aquinas) loved God because for the life of me I cannot help loving St. Thomas." Flannery O'Connor

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“I ask You for a greater love for my holy Mother and I ask her for a greater love for You.” Flannery O’Connor

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You have to cherish the world at the same time you struggle to endure it.

RIP,

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"In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. "
Flannery O'Connor

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“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.” Flannery O'Connor

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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” Flannery O’Connor

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