When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
William FaulknerRead
Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that God embodies qualities of southern charm and sportsmanship.
In this quote, William Faulkner expresses his belief that the essence of God is reflected in the gentility, hospitality, and competitive spirit often associated with Kentuckians. This reflects a deeper philosophical view that interprets divine characteristics as intertwined with human virtues and regional identities, highlighting how culture and locality can shape our understanding of the divine.
In practice
This quote could be used in a sermon to illustrate how regional identity influences our perception of spirituality.
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it...his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it...
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.
The creature born is the creature dying.
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.
Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
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