03/11/2004: "Quote of the Day"

Father Brian: “I’ll tell you something. If she had kissed me back, I don’t think I’d be sitting here right now. I would have given it all up. I mean she didn’t, but I don’t know, I just keep thinking about what you said in the seminary about how the life of a priest is hard and if you can see yourself being happy doing anything else, then you should do that.“

Father Havel: “Well that was my equipment pitch, which is not bad when you’re starting out because it makes you feel like a marine. The truth is, you can never tell yourself that there is only one thing you could be. If you’re a priest or if you marry a woman, it’s the same challenge. You can not make a real commitment unless you accept that it’s a choice, that keep making again and again and again. I’ve been a priest over forty years and I’ve fallen in love at least once every decade.”

Father Brian: “You’re not going to tell me what to do here are you?”

Father Havel: “No, God will give you your answer.”

-Father Brian (played by Edward Norton) talking with his mentor priest in the movie 'Keeping the Faith'