The Reluctant Saint (1962)

Maximilian Schell: Giuseppe

Quotes 

• Bishop : It always troubled me, the Trinity. You know, Giuseppe, I could never really understand it. Does it trouble you?

  Bishop : No. There are three persons in one God. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Three in one.

  Bishop : Yes, but that's for a child. But a small comfort to a Bishop. You see, I'm a peasant, Giuseppe, just like you. A practical man, so I understand only what I feel, and what I see.

  Giuseppe : Look, look. One blanket and one, two, three folds. Three folds in one blanket - three persons in one God, like the Trinity.

• Bishop : Brother Giuseppe! I knew you'd be here someday.

  Giuseppe : [overjoyed that the Bishop remembers him]  Your Excellency.

  Bishop : How are the lambs?

  Giuseppe : Oh, they are sheep now, your Excellency.

  Bishop : Oh yes, of course. Has it been that long? And the studies - they've been hard, eh?

  Giuseppe : [sighs and nods]  But mostly I miss the stables. That's where I really belong, I shouldn't be here.

  Bishop : Let me be the judge of that, Giuseppe. There will be many lost sheep to care for.

• Gobbo : Father Giuseppe! What are they doing to you?

  Giuseppe : It's for my own good, little brother. Father Raspi is driving out the devil.

  Gobbo : The devil? You? Oh, no, you're a saint. He's a saint!

  Don Raspi : Take that blasphemous fool out of here.

• Mother : They have thrown you out. They don't want you back because you are an idiot. You have been nothing but trouble since the day you got there - since the day you were born! What have you done this time? Tell me. Answer!

  Mother : I broke a statue.

  Mother : For breaking a little statue they throw you out like a dog?

  Giuseppe : It wasn't little, it was big.

• Father Giovanni : You have a whole year to prepare yourself, with the best instructors of the order.

  Giuseppe : I'll miss the stables.

  Father Giovanni : Gobbo will look after the animals.

  Giuseppe : Father Giovanni, couldn't I stay...

  Father Giovanni : No.

  Giuseppe : - in the stables?

  Father Giovanni : No.

  Giuseppe : I will work harder than...

  Father Giovanni : No, Giuseppe.

  Giuseppe : Just to stay...

  Father Giovanni : Obedience, Giuseppe, is the first rule.

• Brother Orlando : Recite the 14th chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians.

  Giuseppe : What man of you, having a thousand sheep, and losing one of them...

  Brother Orlando : No, look again! I said Corinthians! There is more to scripture than the gospel of Saint Luke!

  Giuseppe : But I like Saint Luke.

  Brother Orlando : That's beside the point. You've got to know the entire bible. Now, the 14th chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians...

• Brother Orlando : How I envy you.

  Giuseppe : Next year you will be standing here, and I will be your alter boy.

  Brother Orlando : I hope so!