When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few … - Flannery O'Connor

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When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.

Flannery O'Connor

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Book, Save, Thinking, Worry, Writing

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I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

Believe, Doubt, Doubts, Suffering, Think, Thinking

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Believe, Faith, Knows, Literature

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

Away, Fiction, Get Away, Say, Writing

On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think. . . of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.

Class, Classes, Divide, Feminine, Sex, Thinking

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

Atheist, Catholic, Methodist, Would Be

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As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.

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Kisses are but like sands of gold and silver, found upon the ground which are not worth much themselves but as they promise a mine near too be dig'd.

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We studied a mosque, and this is when we were at Notre Dame, and in this mosque they had people from a variety of countries, most of them immigrants. In some of the countries, when you go into a mosque you remove your shoes. To not do so could be punishable even by death in that nation. In other countries, it would be a great offense to remove their shoes when they come into the mosque, a sign of disrespect.

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Albert Einstein

External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

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