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Flannery O'Connor, who suffered from lupus and died at the age of 39, wrote to a friend, "I have never been anywhere but sick." In the same letter, she reflected on the two uninvited teachers that descended on her late in life: sickness and success. "In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than…

Flannery O'Connor observed in a letter to a nonbelieving friend, dated December 9, 1958. "To have the Church be what you want it to be would require the continuous miraculous meddling of God in human affairs, whereas it is our dignity that we are allowed more or less to get on with those graces that…