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He could believe, almost, that he had awakened late on that great getting-up morning; that all the saved had been transformed in the twinkling of an eye, and had risen to meet Jesus in the clouds, and that he was left, with his sinful body, to be bound in Hell a thousand years.
home alone 5: rapture capture
Ain’t got no right to have a houseful of children if you don’t know how to treat them.”
I mean he's not wrong
He had read about colored men being burned in the electric chair for things they had not done; how in riots they were beaten with clubs; how they were tortured in prisons; how they were the last to be hired and the first to be fired.
1955 or 2025?
Ain’t no woman, no, nor no man neither going to make me change my mind.”
ok bi king
They knelt before each other, woman before woman, and man before man, and washed and dried each other’s feet.
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“This boy going to make it to the Kingdom before any of them, you wait and see.”
I beg your fucking pardon?
You is in the Word or you ain’t—ain’t no halfway with God.”
doesn't that black and white thinking feel sooo good and certain?
She knew that Gabriel rejoiced, not that her humility might lead her to grace, but only that some private anguish had brought her low: her song revealed that she was suffering, and this her brother was glad to see.
why do so many spiritual leaders (of any religion in which they hold power) thrive in the suffering of their followers? oh right, because it gives them that much more power.
Neither love nor humility had led her to the altar, but only fear. And God did not hear the prayers of the fearful, for the hearts of the fearful held no belief.
if that's true, then most of the Christian church, anyone who believes in hell and fears it, holds no belief
Their mother would walk out into the yard and cut a switch from a tree and beat him—beat him, it seemed to Florence, until any other boy would have fallen down dead; and so often that any other boy would have ceased his wickedness.
making massa proud
She thought of her mother as already in the grave; and she would not let herself be strangled by the hands of the dead.
it's almost as if a lifetime of suffering with only the imagined promise of salvation makes one bitter and resentful
he nearly burst each time she entered the room, with the pride he knew she felt to see him sitting there, so serene and manly, among all these celebrated others, in
NPD self object/ object constancy
levity,
lmao levity??? you spelled misogyny wrong james
She was not to be seen prancing lewdly through the streets, eyes sleepy and mouth half open with just, or to be found mewing under midnight fences, uncovered, uncovering some black boy’s hanging curse!
eugh brother eugh
“Ain’t you got nothing saved up?” she asked at last. “Look to me like you been married long enough to’ve saved something!” Then he remembered that Deborah had been saving money since their wedding day.
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And he bowed his head yet lower before the altar in weariness and confusion. Oh, that his father would die!—and the road before John be open, as it must be open for others. Yet in the very grave he would hate him; his father would but have changed conditions, he would be John’s father still. The grave was not enough for punishment, for justice, for revenge. Hell, everlasting, unceasing, perpetual, unquenched forever, should be his father’s portion; with John there to watch, to linger, to smile, to laugh aloud, hearing, at last, his father’s cries of torment.
fucking bars
“Gabriel … that Royal … he were your flesh and blood, weren’t he?”
you are TOO KIND TO HIM DEBORAH
“The consecrated cross I’ll bear Till death shall set me free, And then go home, a crown to wear, For there’s a crown for me.”
such a sorrowful faith
“I been listening many a nighttime long,” said Florence, then, “and He ain’t never spoke to me.” “He ain’t never spoke,” said Gabriel, “because you ain’t never wanted to hear. You just wanted Him to tell you your way was right. And that ain’t no way to wait on God.” “Then tell me,” said Florence, “what He done said to you—that you didn’t want to hear?”
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