Monday, January 24, 2011

A Little Flannery: Well Said

We'll be dipping into some of my favorite bits of letters by Flannery O'Connor printed in The Habit of Being.
Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God. The person outside the Church attaches a different meaning to it than the person in. For me a dogma is only a gateway to contemplation and is an instrument of freedom and not of restriction. It perserves mystery for the human mind. ...

1 brave one(s) among us:

sharon graham said...

Woah, that is awesome.Can she write?Thank you.

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