A Brick in the Valley » Flannery O’Connor http://www.chrisbrauns.com The Web Site and Blog of Pastor Chris Brauns Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:49:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 “And, the truth shall make you odd” http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2010/02/10/and-the-truth-shall-make-you-odd/ http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2010/02/10/and-the-truth-shall-make-you-odd/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:30:00 +0000 Chris http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2010/02/10/and-the-truth-shall-make-you-odd/ Flannery O’Connor quotes:

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd.

It is the business of the author to uncover the strangeness of truth.

[The truth] does not change according to our ability to stomach it,” there are periods in the lives of us all, even of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive.

For those who wish to study O’Connor further, I recommend Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner’s, Flannery O’Connor: A Proper Scaring. 

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Mystery isn’t something that is gradually evaporating.  It grows along with knowledge.  (See the Gooch biography, page 348).

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