Extended Reading

Places in the Heart quotes

  • [first lines]

    Edna Spalding: [seeing her daughter's doll at the dinner table] Possum, put that up now.

    Royce Spalding: Our Heavenly Father, bless this meal and all those who are about to receive it. Make us thankful for Your generous bounty, and Your unceasing love. Please remind us, in these hard times, to be grateful for what we have been given, and not to ask for what we can not have. And make us mindful of those less fortunate among us, as we sit at this table with all of Thy bounty. Amen.

  • [last lines]

    Preacher: On the night before His crucifixion, Our Lord gathered with His disciples. He broke the bread, and blessed it, saying: "Take, eat; this is my body." And he took the cup and said: "Drink; this is my blood, which I shed for thee."

    [the congregants pass the elements of communion between them]

    Royce Spalding: Peace of God.

    Wylie: Peace of God.