“Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them. The devil’s greatest wile, Baudelaire has said, is to convince us that he does not exist.”
—Flannery O’Conner
BBC
Jun 08 2002
11:05 am
“Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them. The devil’s greatest wile, Baudelaire has said, is to convince us that he does not exist.”
—Flannery O’Conner