Reverend Joshua Sloan Quotes in The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

Reverend Joshua Sloan: Since I cannot rouse heaven I intend to raise hell.

Reverend Joshua Sloan: Did it ever occur to you, Cable, how wise and bountiful God was to put breasts on a woman? Just the right number in just the right place. Did you ever notice that, Cable?

Cable Hogue: Well, where in the hell would he put 'em? On their backside?

Reverend Joshua Sloan: It's a thought.

[last lines]

Reverend Joshua Sloan: Lord, as the day draws towards evening, this life grows to the end of us all, we say "Adieu" to our friend. Take him, Lord, but knowing Cable, I suggest you do not take him lightly. Amen.

Reverend Joshua Sloan: Funny thing... it doesn't matter how much or how little you've wandered around... how many women you've been with. Every once in awhile, one of them cuts right through. Right straight into you.

Cable Hogue: What do you do about it?

Reverend Joshua Sloan: I suppose maybe when you die you get over it.

Reverend Joshua Sloan: Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord.

Cable Hogue: Well, that's fair enough with me... just as long as he don't take too long and I can watch.

Cable Hogue: Josh, it's about time you earned your keep. Preach me a funeral sermon.

Hildy: Oh, for heaven's sake!

Cable Hogue: A good one. Don't make me out no saint but don't put me down to deep.

Reverend Joshua Sloan: You mean now?

Cable Hogue: Yeah. It's not knowing what they're going to say about you, that's all. Now all my life, I've been scared of this living. Now... got to do the other. Now come on now! I can't wait all day. I ain't got any time.

Reverend Joshua Sloan: He charged too much. He was as stingy as they come. Yes, he might have cheated, but he was square about it. Rich or poor, he gouged them all the same.

Reverend Joshua Sloan: Come child, together we shall purge this grief from your soul and release your true spirit as we search a path to righteousness.