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mortal
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As I Lay Dying
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It is our mortal lot to suffer and...
Chpt 39 *

mortal = human
She had never been pure religious, not even after that summer at the camp meeting when Brother Whitfield wrestled with her spirit, singled her out and strove with the vanity in her mortal heart, and I said to her many a time, "God gave you children to comfort your hard human lot and for a token of His own suffering and love, for in love you conceived and bore them."†
Chpt 39
It is the Lord's part to judge; ours to praise His mercy and His holy name in the hearing of our fellow mortals" because He alone can see into the heart, and just because a woman's Me is right in the sight of man, she can't know if there is no sin in her heart without she opens her heart to the Lord and receives His grace.†
Chpt 39
When the only sin she ever committed was being partial to Jewel that never loved her and was its own punishment, in preference to Darl that was touched by God Himself and considered queer by us mortals and that did love her.†
Chpt 39
She just sat there, lost in her vanity and her pride, that had closed her heart to God and set that selfish mortal boy in His place.†
Chpt 39
I entered the house of bereavement, the lowly dwelling where another erring mortal lay while her soul faced the awful and irrevocable judgment, peace to her ashes.†
Chpt 41

Definitions:

(1) (mortal as in: mortal body)
human (especially merely human); or subject to death
(2) (mortal as in: a mortal wound)
causing death
(3) (mortal as in: felt mortal agony)
extreme or intense
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)