SOURCE: "Miss Flannery's 'Good Man'," in The Denver Quarterly, Vol. III, No. 3, Autumn, 1968, pp. 1-19.

In the following essay, Montgomery explores the spiritual aspects of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find. "

And if Christ is not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain

I. Corinthians 15:14

I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from and no Redemption because there was no Fall and no Judgment because there wasn't the first two. Nothing matters but that Jesus was a liar.

Hazel Motes, in Wise Blood

The Dragon is by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the Dragon.

Epigram to "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," from St. Cyril of Jerusalem

In an interview at...