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Morten Borgen: I can't stand your undertaker faces.
Peter Petersen: Yes, I've heard that before. No, you, you have the bright, happy Christianity, while we, we are the dark of soul and undertakers. But since you are one of the bright and happy Christians, why do you always look so miserable when one meets you? I feel so free and glad, because I know there is a place waiting for me in heaven.
Morten Borgen: And the rest of us, all the rest of us, we go straight down to hell to eternal torments, don't we? Yes, that's what you think, isn't it?
Peter Petersen: Yes. Words, words, you have them all right.
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Inger Borgen: I believe a lot of little miracles happen secretly.
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Johannes Borgen: Inger, you must rot, because the times are rotten.
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Morten Borgen: Have I ever been in love? At least ten times.
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Morten Borgen: What good does all this do, Johannes?
Johannes Borgen: I am the light of the world, but the darkness does not comprehend it. I have come unto mine own, but mine own does not receive me.
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Inger Borgen: Johannes will be himself again.
Morten Borgen: I've hoped and hoped he might, but he'll never get any better.
Inger Borgen: Why don't you believe so?
Morten Borgen: Miracles don't happen any more.
Inger Borgen: Nothing is impossible, if one prays to Him for it.
Morten Borgen: I have prayed and prayed and prayed, Inger.
Inger Borgen: Then you must go on praying, for Jesus has promised what we pray to him for, He will give us.
Morten Borgen: I know, Inger, I know - but what good have all my prayers done?
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Mikkel Borgen: Mikkel, you believe in God, don't you?
Inger Borgen: You know how I feel about all that, Inger.
Mikkel Borgen: That you haven't got faith?
Mikkel Borgen: Not even faith in faith.
Inger Borgen: But you have something else, something more important.
Mikkel Borgen: And what is that?
Inger Borgen: A heart - goodness. I tell you, it's not enough to have faith if one is not a good person at the same time. And that's what you are.
Mikkel Borgen: But I haven't got faith.
Inger Borgen: It will come.
Mikkel Borgen: You're so sure of that?
Inger Borgen: Yes! And then you will see how warm you will feel, a glow inside you - and you'll be happy. It's nice to be happy.
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Morten Borgen: Do you know what the difference is between your faith and mine? You think Christianity is sullenness and self-torment. I think Christianity is the fullness of life. My faith is for all day long and joy in life. Yours is the longing of death. My faith is the warmth of life. Yours is the coldness of death.
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Morten Borgen: This is madness - and yet - what is madness and what is reason?
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Morten Borgen: That's the trouble with doctors - they always believe in what's least worth believing.
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Morten Borgen: Karen, Karen, we must have - Inger's getting better, she's getting over it - we must have coffee, coffee, from real coffee beans.
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The Doctor: Perhaps you believe in miracles, Reverend.
Pastor: Believe? Naturally miracles are possible, since God is the creator of everything and everything is therefore possible to Him, But...
The Doctor: But?
Pastor: On the other hand, even though God can perform miracles, He does not do so.
The Doctor: And why not?
Pastor: Because miracles would break the laws of nature, and, naturally, God does not break His own laws.
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The Doctor: Even in pain there is beauty.
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Morten Borgen: Oh! Thank God, now the tears have come.
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Johannes Borgen: All of you blaspheme God with your lukewarmness.
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Inger Borgen: Life.
Mikkel Borgen: Yes.
Inger Borgen: Life.
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