Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisibl…

Flannery O'Connor
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Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1988). Collected Works, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
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