- [first lines]
- Mexican worker: [as Homer climbs down from the chapel steeple] Senor Homer... will we have bells?
- Homer Smith: Someday.
- [last lines]
- Sister Gertrude: [as they watch Homer drive away into the night] Will Schmidt come back?
- Mother Maria: In God's good time.
- Homer Smith: [to Mother Maria, who is staring in amazement as she hears the bells in the chapel steeple ringing] The chapel is now finished.
- Sister Gertrude: [Mrs. Everett has withdrawn her funding and support because of Felicia's pregnancy] What did the rich lady want?
- Mother Maria: [pause, then] She is not rich... she is poor.