Don Raspi Quotes in The Reluctant Saint (1962)

Don Raspi: [looking after Giuseppe] The senseless man seeks in vain for wisdom. Proverbs: 14.

Father Giovanni: True. But the fear of the Lord is training for wisdom, and humility goes before honors. Proverbs: 15.

Father Giovanni: Look at him. Do you really believe there is a devil lurking inside that humble young man?

Don Raspi: There was once a Lucifer in heaven.

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.

Don Raspi: Charity and love are capital virtues, Brother Giuseppe, but my favorite virtue is promptness.