Flannery O'Connor Quotes

When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

Flannery O'Connor

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• When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Spiritual