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Pirate Latitudes
Hunter entered the first but he found nothing save a Bible, printed in Spanish, and a couple of moth-eaten blankets thrown across rude, broken beds.
The Joy Luck Club
As proof of her faith, my mother used to carry a small leatherette Bible when she went to the First Chinese Baptist Church every Sunday. But later, after my mother lost her faith in God, that leatherette Bible wound up wedged under a too-short table leg, a way for her to correct the imbalances of life.
The Joy Luck Club
One night I had to look at a page from the Bible for three minutes and then report everything I could remember. "Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance and…that’s all I remember, Ma," I said.
East of Eden
Her total intellectual association was the Bible, except the talk of Samuel and her children, and to them she did not listen. In that one book she had her history and her poetry, her knowledge of peoples and things, her ethics, her morals, and her salvation. She never studied the Bible or inspected it; she just read it.
East of Eden
He stooped down to her while she tied his black string tie. His white beard was brushed to shining. “Could I take the Bible along?” he asked. “There’s no place for getting a good name like the Bible.”
East of Eden
Cal said, “My name is Caleb,” Cal said. “Caleb got to the Promised Land. That’s what Lee says, and it’s in the Bible.”
The Dharma Bums
Oh you, oh man, don't be like that. You know what it says in the Bible, 'even unto the least of these . . .
The Dharma Bums
I took out the Bible and read a little Saint Paul by the warm stove and the light of the tree, "Let him become a fool, that he may become wise," and I thought of good dear Japhy and wished he was enjoying the Christmas Eve with me.
The Sympathizer
In his schoolroom I learned my Bible and the history of my divine Father, the story of my Gallic forefathers, and the catechism of the Catholic Church.
The Sympathizer
He taught me the Word of God, she said, and I learned to read and to count by studying the Bible and memorizing the Ten Commandments.
The Sympathizer
I carried his leg as far away from me as possible, its weight growing more and more, like the Bible my father made me hold in front of the classroom as punishment for some transgression, my arm outstretched with the book on the scale of my hand.
Parable of the Sower
…Dad said when I asked him about Deists. "They should have had more faith in what their Bible stold them." I wonedr if the people oneGthulf Coast still havfeaith.…
Parable of the Sower
She used to sit in oonur fr t-room church eevry Sunday, lagre-print Bible in hand,nda shout out her respnoses: "Yes, Lord!" "Hlaellujah!" "Thank you, Jesus!" "Amen!
Parable of the Sower
She believed in a literal acceptance of everything in the Bible. Yet, when thgins got to bteoomuch for her, she decidedtodtrade pain now for eternapl aininthehe reafter. How could shedothat?
Parable of the Sower
thenturneditonandopenedmygrandmother'sBible.ShehadhadalotofBiblesandDadhadletmekeepthisone.
Parable of the Sower
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Parable of the Sower
Bits of the Bible hadnedothat to me, staying with me even after I spteodp believing.
Parable of the Sower
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Parable of the Sower
We spoke our individual memories and quoted Bible passages, Earthseed verses, and bits of songs and poems that were favorites of the living or the dead.
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