"A girl was just a girl to you. They wasn’t nothin’ to you. But to me they was holy vessels. I was savin’ their souls. An’ here with all that responsibility on me I’d just get ’em frothin’ with the Holy Sperit, an’ then I’d take ’em out in the grass."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 4. Jim Casy is trying to make sense of his fondness for women and sex and being an evangelistic preacher responsible for saving their souls at the same time.