All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
Interpretation
Change is often resisted by people because it can be uncomfortable and challenging, especially when it comes to personal growth.
This quote by Flannery O'Connor speaks to the inherent resistance found within human nature towards the concept of grace, which symbolizes transformation and acceptance of change. The idea that this change can be painful highlights the struggle many experience when they confront the need to grow or adapt, indicating that such growth often requires a departure from our familiar selves, which can be a challenging process.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.
What people donβt realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.
I think what's so powerful about Black Lives Matter is we're the first movement able to take on law enforcement and make it a popular discussion.
We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.
A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing β a flower in the process of expressing its potential.
There is no such thing as a Fourth Industrial Revolution with 9 billion thriving co-citizens in the world if it is accomplished on linear economic principles. We need a transition to circular economic principles and practice.
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his conception of religion, in his whole world outlook, are greater than the changes that occurred during the preceding four thousand years all put together.
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