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You can watch “Uncommon Grace: The Life of Flannery O’Connor” for free on the PBS app. pbs.org/video/uncommon-grace…

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.” Flannery O'Connor “A Temple of the Holy Ghost“ #FlanneryOConnor #AllSaintsDay

“Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“If you live today, you breathe in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.” Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor

Flannery O’Connor said this prayer daily: “St. Raphael, lead us toward those we are waiting for, those who are waiting for us: Raphael, Angel of happy meeting, lead us by the hand toward those we are looking for.” #FlanneryOConnor #Archangels

"I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor

"All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“If you start with a real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen; and you don’t have to know what before you begin. In fact it may be better if you don’t know what before you begin.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

Well, if [the Eucharist] is a symbol, to hell with it. That was all the defense I was capable of but I realize now that this is all I will ever be able to say about it . . . except that it is the center of existence for me; all the rest of life is expendable.” Flannery O’Connor

“People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

"When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor

"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the Cross.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

"There won't be any biographies of me because lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor

Celebrate Flannery's birthday by watching our film for free on the PBS app. "Uncommon Grace: The Life of Flannery O'Connor." #FlanneryOConnor pbs.org/video/uncommon-grace…

"Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“I say many many too many uncharitable things about people everyday. I say them because they make me look clever. Please help me to realize practically how cheap this is." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor #Lent2026