Flannery O'Connor Quotes

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

I believe and have always believed in the virgin birth, and the second coming.

What brought me to Christianity is Incarnation, not Ressurection.

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

The literal resurrection of every soul who has lived and died on earth is a certainty, and surely one should make careful preparation for this event. A glorious resurrection should be the goal of every man and woman, for resurrection will be a reality.

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.

It saddens me that in many churches today, you hardly hear the name of Jesus being mentioned. Instead, you hear psychology being taught. You hear motivational teachings. You hear 'doing, doing, doing', 'vision, vision, vision' or 'calling, calling, calling'. You hear very little of Jesus Christ and His finished work being taught. Is this what Christianity is about? Your doing, your calling and your vision?

Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

God without Christ is no God.

To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.

It's just that for so many people that I know, Christianity's this matter of... it has everything to do with morals. Christianity is a religion about morals. And they will even talk about Jesus. And they will say kids need to know about Jesus so they won't smoke, drink, or dance, or go with girls that do, and all that kind of thing. And I kinda go, 'That's not why people need to know about Jesus. The only reason - The only possible excuse for talking about Jesus is because we need a Savior.'

Salvation is the root-the resurrection is the fruit.

Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live!

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.