One of the reasons for his drinking, Henry said, was John's mama used to make the whole family get down on their knees and pray like fury everytime John's daddy--Henry's first cousin, I believe--would come home boozed, and John never quite got it straight that they weren't thanking the good Lord for his blessing same as they did at the supper table. So according to Henry booze come to be sort of holy to him and with faith like that John grew up religious as a deacon.
Quotes about deacon (11 Quotes)
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
Every deacon in town left that weekend, ... They thought I was going to be shot.
Dudley spotlighted the work of blockers Deacon Young, David Bailey, Jason Patsel, Rick Tuifao and centers Mike Elledge and Stevie Williams. We got over 300 rushing yards Saturday, and over 100 yards passing, ... The offensive line has done a wonderful job.
Jason had another solid game in goal for us and again our seniors stepped up. Chris (Deacon) had a great game and I thought Jeff Rosa had one of his best games of the year.
I remember when I started in place of Deacon in last year's first game in San Francisco. felt like I was taking a part of him away.
He'd always been real active in the church, but I thought maybe he would become a deacon, ... But now, when I see him in his robes, it's like it all worked out like there was a plan.
So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.
It was a really tough decision to play Lewis because I think both Brett Deacon and Will Johnson have been playing fantastically, not to mention Luke Abraham's performance last week. But we know Lewis is a very good player, and in all fairness, we would quite like to see him play for Leicester.
I played alongside him at the Canadian Amateur recently (Deacon lost in the second round) and I could sense he's turned a corner.
Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.