For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.
Flannery O'ConnorThe mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.
Flannery O'ConnorDogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.
Flannery O'ConnorIf you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
Flannery O'Connor