Well Said: Intellectual Interests and the Church a la Flannery

From The Habit of Being, a collection of Flannery O'Connor's letters.

I doubt if your interests get less intellectual as you become more deeply involved in the Church but what will happen is that the intellect will take its place in a larger context and will cease to by tyrannical, if it has been -- and when there is nothing over the intellect it is usually tyrannical. Anyway, the mind serves best when it's anchored in the word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity ...