"Preachers has got to preach against something. It wouldn't do them no good to preach for everything. They got to be against something every time." "I never looked at it that way before," Jeeter said, "but there might be a lot in what you say. Though, take for instance, God and heaven—you wouldn't preach against them, would you, Sister Bessie?" "Good preachers don’t preach about God and heaven, and things like that. They always preach against something, like hell and the devil. Them is things to be against. It wouldn’t do a preacher no good to preach for God. He’s got to preach against the devil and all wicked and sinful things. That’s what the people like to hear about. They want to hear about the bad things."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Novelists from the United StatesShort story writers from the United StatesPeople from Georgia (U.S. state)
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Ch. 17
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erskine_Caldwell
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Erskine Caldwell
Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933), won him critical acclaim.
17 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Erskine Caldwell →
Related Quotes
"Here is hard-core unemployment, widespread and chronic; here is a region of shacks and hovels for housing; here are c…"
"She could sometimes stand the pain of it in her stomach when she knew there was nothing to eat, but when Lov stood in…"
"The spring-time ain’t going to let you fool it by hiding away inside a durn cotton mill. It knows you got to stay on …"
"There were always well-developed plans in Jeeter’s mind for the things he intended doing; but somehow he never got ar…"
"It ain't no sin to look like that, Ellie May," Jeeter had told her. "You came into the world that way from God, and t…"
"Jeeter could never think of the loss of his land and goods as anything but a man-made calamity. He sometimes said it …"
"Though it sometimes looks like a rich man will never help the poor; whereas the poor people will give away everything…"
"He knew the time for burning and plowing had ended the day before, but there still lingered in the warm March air som…"
"It was still not too late to begin, but Jeeter did not have a mule, and he did not have the credit to purchase seed-c…"
"All you boys seem to think about is the things you can see and touch—that ain’t living. It’s the things you can feel …"