Quote #92
It was of no use. That particular sort of coward and evader he was not, and he lay abed facing all his sins, all his slacknesses, and the merited punishment by a just and angry God. ~ Ch. 5
More from Sinclair Lewis
- It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind. ~ Ch. 4
- Deacon Uriel Gadd was a man of integrity, granite-rough and lichen-coated. The punishment in his rheumatism, clearly sent of God, and the d…
- When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravag…
- Hours then of blasphemy and fury and debate, all in the theological terms that seem shocking to the literate citizens today, who believe in…
- Good sense from a child was not necessarily contemptible beside foolishness from a grown-up. ~ Ch. 3
- Everything seemed confused and contradictory, and he longed for one clear command from a divine martinet. ~ Ch. 7
- Aaron had learned : from Mr. Fairlow's two-hour sermons on 'The Jealousy of an Angry Jehovah Who Hath Weighed Sinners in the Balance and Fo…
- Maybe he was not a good-enough Christian to get the proper zest out of mortifying his indolent flesh. ~ Ch. 15