Quote by: Flannery O'Connor

If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber.


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Author Bio


  • NameFlannery O'Connor
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist, short story writer
  • BornMarch 25, 1925
  • DiedAugust 3, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Essayist
  • WorksWise Blood; The Violent Bear It Away; A Good Man Is Hard To Find
  • AwardsNational Book Award