Monday, January 10, 2005

Flannery O'Connor on fighting for joy

"Always you renounce a lesser good for a greater; the opposite is what sin is.... The struggle to submit... is not a struggle to submit but a struggle to accept and with passion. I mean, possibly, with joy. Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy - fully armed too as it's a highly dangerous quest."

Flannery O'Connor, quoted by John Piper.

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