The Texan (TV Series)

The Lord Will Provide (1958)

Rory Calhoun: Bill Longley

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Quotes 

• [the shot fired at Reverend Kilgore strikes the Bible in his vest pocket] 

  Reverend Kilgore : The bullet went all the way from Genesis to Proverbs... Chapter 29, the second verse.

  Bill Longley : All I can say is the Lord provided a special shield for you, Reverend.

  [reading the Bible passage under the bullet] 

  Reverend Kilgore : "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice."

• [first lines] 

  [Bill rescues a man from a pair of bushwhackers] 

  Reverend Kilgore : Thanks for your help.

  Bill Longley : Don't you do any of your own fighting? Why didn't you pitch in? Where's your gun?

  [Kilgore reaches into his coat and pulls out a Bible] 

  Bill Longley : ...Sorry, Reverend.

• Bill Longley : Phillipsburg? Isn't that the town where they shoot preachers?

  Doctor : Yeah. Seems to be a local custom.

• Bill Longley : Why is Phillipsburg so tough on preachers?

  Sheriff : I wouldn't know.

  Bill Longley : Aren't you curious?

  Sheriff : I'm a married man. That kind of curiosity is a luxury that only a single man should indulge in.

• [Bill grabs the sheriff's badge] 

  Bill Longley : Well, what about this?

  Sheriff : Don't rub all the shine off, son. Besides, Phillipsburg's outside my jurisdiction. Just pay a little attention to the Junction City Museum of Art and Culture.

  [the sheriff hands Bill a stack of wanted posters] 

  Sheriff : See any friends... or enemies?

• [Bill dons Reverend Kilgore's clothes] 

  Doctor : You're a fine-lookin' reverend!

  Bill Longley : Thank you.

  Reverend Kilgore : Except for one thing.

  Bill Longley : What?

  [pointing to Bill's gunbelt] 

  Reverend Kilgore : That.

• Reverend Kilgore : I'll pray for God to ride with you.

  Bill Longley : I'll be very happy to have his company, but I think I'll ride the back trails just the same.

• [Phillips slaps Longley on both cheeks] 

  Bill Longley : I follow the teachings of the man who said, "Love they neighbor". He's also the man who ran the moneychangers out of the temple with his own hands - and this seems like a good example.

  [Bill slugs Phillips] 

• Bill Longley : I'm curious, Mr. Anderson. Why do they shoot ministers in Phillipsburg?

  Katy Clayton : Because the men in this town got chicken soup in their veins instead of blood.

• Bill Longley : You saw what happened in the Oriental Palace last night, yet you didn't do anything about it. Why?

  Judge Hawks : I'm the judge here, not the sheriff. I don't go to work till after there's been a shootin'.

  Bill Longley : Ohh. Well, who's the sheriff?

  Judge Hawks : At the moment the position is vacant.

• Bill Longley : Just in case somebody's outside waiting for us, you go first.

  [Bill shoves Phillips out the door] 

  Pete Phillips : Don't shoot! Don't...

  [the crack of a rifle shot is heard] 

  Bill Longley : Well, Judge, you can go to work now. I think there's been a shootin'.

• Bill Longley : Well, we can raise a thousand at least. Maybe we can get the rest.

  Anderson : But where? Unless the Lord will provide, we're beat.

  Bill Longley : Well, we have to have faith.

  Katy Clayton : It isn't faith we need; it's money.

• Judge Hawks : I thought you were Reverend Kilgore.

  Bill Longley : Appearances are deceiving. I thought you were an honest man.

• Bill Longley : I had a favorite uncle who was a school teacher, and a minister of the Lord.