Flannery O'Connor Quotes

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

My relationship with God has gotten better and stronger for the simple fact that I understand it a lot better. You know, to me, God's my best friend.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Calling on you to give up control of the outer world and gladly accept control of your inner relationship with God, devotion is essential for fully realizing your soul's calling.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

I was raised Catholic, and I knew of Him and certainly what He did, but I never truly experienced knowing Him.

Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.

I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

I speak to God every day.

As you talk to Heavenly Father and pour out your heart to Him, you will draw closer to Him. Then pause, stop, and listen to the feelings of your heart. Seek to understand the promptings of the Spirit. As you pray sincerely, you will come to feel Heavenly Father's great love for you.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.