“It is easy for any child to pick out the faults in
the sermon on his way home from Church every Sunday. It is impossible for him
to find out the hidden love that makes a man, in spite of his intellectual
limitations, his neuroticism, his own lack of strength, give up his life in the
service of God’s people, however bumblingly he may go about it.”—American
novelist-short-story writer Flannery O’Connor (19251964), letter to Cecil
Dawkins, December 9, 1958, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald (1979)
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