"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

#Eye Quotes #Grace Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Maybe I really could be one of the greatest of all time. Who doesn't want to be a legend, right?”
“Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
“Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.”
“I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.”
“The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes to fascistic leftist behavior, our mainstream media overlooks and excuses it - while conservatives are demonized and blamed for every dead sparrow that falls from the sky.”
“In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.”
“Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.”
“The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house.”

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