The experience of losing your faith, or of having lost it, is
an experience that in the long run belongs to faith; or at least it can belong
to faith if faith is still valuable to you, and it must be or you would not have
written me about this. I don't know how the kind of faith required of a
Christian living in the 20th century can be at all if it is not grounded on this
experience that you are having right now of unbelief. "Lord, I believe; help my
unbelief" is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the
gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.
- Flannery O'Connor
(received today in sojomail)
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