The Shoes of the Fisherman (I) (1968)

Oskar Werner: Fr. David Telemond

Quotes 

• Fr. David Telemond : The doctors, they don't know anything. They're like the auto-mechanics.

• Fr. David Telemond : You know even God has not spoken his last word about his own creation.

• Fr. David Telemond : It is strange. When a president dies, he's replaced within an hour. When a king dies, long live the king. When a pope dies, everything stops.

• Fr. David Telemond : I'm not afraid of being accused. I'm only afraid of being silenced.

• Kiril Lakota : You have written many books?

  Fr. David Telemond : Ten.

  Kiril Lakota : Oh, ten? How many published?

  Fr. David Telemond : None.

• Fr. David Telemond : I've an enemy in my blood. One day it will kill me, so they say.

• Fr. David Telemond : Even today, too many Christians justify mass murder under the name of war. Tomorrow, please God, they will outlaw war too, as a crime.

• Fr. David Telemond : I've dug down through the crust of God's earth. There's a long record of life written there. A record full of wonders. Dinosaurs, flying reptiles, giant moles. All gone. But the line is clear, traced by the creative finger of God. And it always points in the same direction, to us: the knowing man, the thinking man. And it points beyond us. To what? Either this world is a tragic trap in which man lives without hope and dies without dignity or - it is like Teilhard de Chardin wrote many years ago: a great becoming in which mankind is thrust towards a glorious completion in Christ. I believe in the plan of completion. I believe in the future union of the world with the Cosmic Christ.

• Fr. David Telemond : Even God has not spoken His last word about His own creation. Would you like to hear some Shostakovich?