Flannery O'Connor Quotes

There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' And what brings me peace is the scripture.

I believe in Jesus Christ.

The Bible is clear that the Holy Spirit is God Himself.

It represents a Bible verse I wear on my shoe. Philippians 4:13. It says 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.' It's also my mantra, how I get up for games and why I play the way I do.

Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Gandhi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn't anything like the real Jesus at all.

Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.

The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future

Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.

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

The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

One reason, of course, as a Christian, I believe the Bible is the word of God. I take the Bible as the standard.

Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

God without Christ is no God.

I'm strongly into the Bible; I'm strongly into God and religion.I'm pro-life and different things.

We are compelled, our faith urging us, to believe and to hold—and we do firmly believe and simply confess—that there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins.

Anyone who believes in a Jesus who condones abortion does not believe in the real Jesus, and therefore is not Christian.

We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.

If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.

If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn’t matter what else we get right.

The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received into the mind like I should receive a system of philosophy, or astronomy, but it represents Him as a beal, living, mighty Saviour, able to save me now.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

Over the years since I became a Christian, I have always deliberately explained that I have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These words are invariably translated into 'Colson's professed religious experience.' I discovered that one major U.S. daily, as a matter of policy, will not print the two words Jesus Christ together; when combined, the editor says, it represents an editorial judgment.