Father Sebastião Rodrigues Quotes in Silence (2016)

Father Sebastião Rodrigues: I pray but I am lost. Am I just praying to silence?

Father Sebastião Rodrigues: I worry, they value these poor signs of faith more than faith itself. But how can we deny them?

Father Sebastião Rodrigues: I feel so tempted. I feel so tempted to despair. I'm afraid. The weight of your silence is terrible. I pray, but I'm lost. Or am I just praying to nothing? Nothing. Because you are not there.

Father Sebastião Rodrigues: The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church.

Father Sebastião Rodrigues: I thought that martyrdom would be my salvation. Please, please, God, do not let it be my shame. The Lord is my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in Him will I put my trust. Of the Blood, all price exceeding, shed by our immortal King, destined for the world's redemption.

Father Sebastião Rodrigues: Father, how could Jesus love a wretch like this?* There is evil all around in this place.- I sense its strength, even its beauty. But there is none of that in this man. He is not worthy to be called evil.

Father Sebastião Rodrigues: Surely God heard their prayers as they died. But did He hear their screams?

Garupe: It's too dangerous!

Father Sebastião Rodrigues: We asked for this mission.

Father Sebastião Rodrigues: Insult me all you like but give me more courage.

Father Sebastião Rodrigues: [voice over] Lord, I fought against your silence.

Voice of Jesus: [voice over] I suffered beside you. I was never silent.

Father Sebastião Rodrigues: I know.

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Father Sebastião Rodrigues: But even if God had been silent my whole life, to this very day, everything I do, everything I've done... Speaks of Him.

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Father Sebastião Rodrigues: It was in the silence that I heard Your voice.

Ferreira: We were taught to love those who scorned us.

Father Sebastião Rodrigues: I feel nothing for them.

Ferreira: Only Our Lord can judge your heart.

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Father Sebastião Rodrigues: You said, "Our Lord."

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Ferreira: I doubt it.