Something to think on …

Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon. It will keep you free  — not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

— Flannery O’Connor, born on this date in 1925