Flannery O'Connor Quotes

Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.

To me faith means not worrying.

Leave that which makes you doubt for that which does not make you doubt.

I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.

Men who know are secure. Men who don't know believe in luck.

If you knew everything was really was all right, and that it always has a happy ending, then you would not feel trepidacious about your future. Everything is really so very all right! If you could believe and trust that, then, immediately everything would automatically and instantly become all right.

A person who knows who they are is not threatened by the beliefs of others.

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.

We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence

Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

We just need some faith.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

Don't know if Boston was real or lucid dream. When they chanted Diesel, it sure as hell felt real for ME! You make decisions in life, sometimes never getting proof that it was the right decision. The crowd in Boston on Sunday night assured me that I MADE THE RIGHT DECISION.

To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.

I never for one minute questioned what I had to do. I did not think for one minute that I didn't have what I had. If just didn't dawn on me. And so if you know what you have, then you know that there's nobody on earth that can affect you.

Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.

Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.

I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny.

Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.

Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.

Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.