“We're on a mission from God.” The Blues Brothers
(1980)

“But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he
who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through
the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall
not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be
burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your
God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.” Isaiah
43:1-3

“You know that point in your life when you realize that the
house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? …You'll
see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and
it's just gone. And you can never get it back. It's like you get
homesick for a place that doesn't exist. I mean it's like this rite
of passage, you know. You won't have this feeling again until you
create a new idea of home for yourself.” Garden State
(2004)

“Don't you think that idea is a little half-baked?”
“Oh no, Dad, it's completely baked.” The Graduate
(1967)

“Ben, what are you doing?”
“Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in
the pool.”
“Why?”
“Well, it's very comfortable just to drift here.” The
Graduate (1967)

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will
accomplish nothing in life.” Muhammad Ali

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and
liking how you do it.” Maya Angelou

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things
that matter.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I started to appreciate the life of wine, that it's a living
thing, that it connects you more to life. I like to think about
what was going on the year the grapes were growing. I like to
think about how the sun was shining that summer and what the
weather was like. I think about all those people who tended and
picked the grapes. And if it's an old wine, how many of them must
be dead by now. I love how wine continues to evolve, how if
I open a bottle the wine will taste different than if I had
uncorked it on any other day, or at any other moment. A bottle of
wine is like life itself - it grows up, evolves and gains
complexity.” Sideways (2004)

God: Stop underachieving. Stop squandering the potential I
gave you. Have some pride. Joan of Arcadia

God: You don't know how many burdens the boy is already
carrying. And I'd like you to consider the possibility that it is
you who should take on some of his burdens, not vice versa.
Joan: Adam has burdens?
God: Sometimes they look a lot like gifts. Joan of
Arcadia

“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see
the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am
following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I
believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope
I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will
never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do
this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing
about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be
lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever
with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils
alone.” Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

“Faith is like a glass of water. When you're young, the glass
is small, and it's easy to fill up. But the older you get, the
bigger the glass gets, and the same amount of liquid doesn't
fill it anymore. Periodically, the glass has to be refilled.”
Dogma (1999)

“I'd like to quit thinking of the present, like right now,
as some minor, insignificant preamble to somethin' else.” Dazed
and Confused (1993)

“I shut my eyes in order to see.” Paul Gauguin

“I just want to be inspired.” Jerry Maguire
(1996)

“Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you
were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were
of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame
the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong….
He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who became
for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and
redemption, in order that, as it is written, “Let the one who
boasts, boast in the Lord.” 1 Cor. 1:26-27; 30-31

“I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you
the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.” The Matrix (1999)

“I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like
Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole.” The Matrix (1999)

“That's enough singing for now, lads... looks like
there's dirty work afoot.” Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(1975)

“All that spirits desire, spirits attain.” Kahlil
Gibran

“For this I bless you most: You give much and know not
that you give at all.” Kahlil Gibran

“In the Judaism of Jesus’ time (and especially in later
rabbinic times) it was customary for prospective disciples to seek
out a distinguished teacher and be received by him. In the Gospels,
however, this process is reversed, with Jesus actively seeking out
his followers. The call of the first disciples in Mark 1:16-20
serves as a model. While walking by the shore of the Sea of
Galilee, Jesus encounters two sets of brothers – Simon (Peter) and
Andrew, and James and John – working at their trade as fishermen.
There is no indication that these men have ever met Jesus or know
anything about him. Nevertheless, when Jesus says, ‘Follow me,’
they leave behind their family and business, and immediately become
his disciples. By way of indirection, the narrative suggests that
Jesus’ person and call are so persuasive and attractive that the
four fishermen leave everything to follow him.”
Daniel Harrington, S.J., The Church According to the New
Testament

“To what is every Christian called by God? All divine
vocations, however they may be thought of, are summonses, vocations, to
complement the descent of the eternal God into flesh. They are always vocations
to earthly ordinariness and death, vocations to believe in the light
shining in the darkness
, to
actualize love that seems to go unrewarded and unrequited, to enter
into solidarity with the poor and the ‘shortchanged’ – the brothers
and sisters of Jesus Christ who are anything but the elite, and
seem rather to belong to some sort of hideous, mass-produced
humanity. Only through the performance of this task as a mission to
‘those below’ does the Christian really accomplish his or her
radical surrender to God’s incomprehensibility as a beatifying
surrender through faith, hope and love.” Karl Rahner, The
Practice of the Faith