Pastor Quotes in Warlock (1989)

Pastor: Can I ask what your interest is in finding such a book?

Giles Redferne: Our interest lies in stopping those who would see all good falter. It lies in stopping the powers of misrule from coming of age. It lies in finding that damned book, and thwarting a vile beast of a man who shall not rest until God himself is thrown down, and all of creation becomes Satan's black hell-besmeared farting hole!

Kassandra: You asked.

Pastor: Now, let's have a drink!

Jesse James: In the church?

Pastor: [pulls out a bottle] Communion!

Olive Penderghast: I was just wondering what your church's stance on lying and adultery was?

Pastor: It's not a good thing.

Olive Penderghast: Oh, I agree wholeheartedly. But then, tell me this: assuming there is a Hell...

Pastor: Oh, the Christian church recognizes the existence of Hell.

Olive Penderghast: OK, so we'll just say there's a "Hell"...

Pastor: There is. Just so we're clear.

Olive Penderghast: OK, but for argument's sake...

Pastor: No, there's no argument, it's there. Right below our feet. Right above the Orient.

Pastor: And so, dear Lord, it is with deep sadness that we turn over to you this young woman, whose dream to ride on a giant swan resulted in her death. Maybe it is your way of telling us... to buy American.

[last lines]

Rabbi: Mazeltov!

Pastor: As a sign of your union, you may kiss the bride.

Albert: [loudly weeps hysterically]

Pastor: Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it's what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but it doesn't really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along. Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved. And the truth is I feel so angry, and the truth is I feel so fucking sad, and the truth is I've felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I've been pretending I'm OK, just to get along, just for, I don't know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen.

Pastor: I know what you're feeling, my boy. Look at it this way, he's gone to a better place.

Lonnie Bannon: I don't think so... not unless dirt is a better place than air.

Pastor: And though it is impossible not to feel distraught, even angry at this seemingly senseless loss, God has also given a healing gift to those of us who are believers: the knowledge that what others call death is not actually an ending but a new beginning. This young man, who we all loved so much, whom we will all miss so terribly... Chaz has begun the next stage in his amazing journey with a new life and a new flesh, more perfect than anything we can even imagine. Let us be inspired by the life of Chaz Young, to make our own lives a testament to Your glory. He was with us, we enjoyed his company, basked in his spirit, and now he's gone from us in the flesh, but his memory will remain with us forever. Let us all strive to live up to that memory, to live up to the gift which You have given us by letting us know this remarkable young man.

Jack Jefferson: Hey, man. What's my winning gonna do for you?

Country Boy: Huh?

Pastor: Give him self respect.

Country Boy: Yeah, I be proud to be colored tomorrow.

Jack Jefferson: Country boy, if you ain't there already, all the boxing and all the nigger-praying in the world ain't gonna get you there.

Pastor: Lord, I ask that you treat Jay just like he treated me today in this deal.

Pastor: Listen, folks, listen. You're in the shape you're in today because of the choices you've made. Your marriage is in the shape it is in today because of the choices you've made. Your relationship with your wife and with your children is in the shape it's in because of the choices you've made. You're in financial bondage today because of the choices you've made. God's Word would set you free if you would read it, but you're in bondage and you're trapped and you're under all the dirt and the stuff and you feel like you're a slave to your debt and to a relationship because you've not listened to the Word of God. And until you listen to the Word of God, you will make the wrong choices, go down the wrong road, lose your family, lose your home, lose your security, lose your investments, because God has a way to live life. And you and I cannot live life on our terms and ask God to bless that. And the reason that many people that I'm talking to today are in bondage and in frustration and in defeat, is because you don't really want to know what God says. And you don't want to live it God's way.