A Thief in the Night (1972)

Colleen Niday: Jenny

Quotes 

• Jenny : Sue, could you run next door and ask Mrs. Thompson if I could borrow a stick of butter?

  Susan : Okay, but you be sure to be here when I get back.

  Jenny : Don't worry, sweetie, if I'm gone, you'll be gone, too.

• Jenny : What do you think about what he said?

  Diane Bradford : Who?

  Jenny : The guy who was preaching.

  Diane Bradford : Oh I thought it was a bunch of bull.

  Patty Myers : Oh some people get all strung out over things that don't even matter. I mean I'm a Christian.

  Jenny : You are?

  Patty Myers : Well not like *he* was a Christian. I mean I go to church about every week, I try to follow the 10 Commandments, I read my Bible once in a while, and I try and help people if they need it.

  Diane Bradford : [laughing]  You're practically a missionary.

  Patty Myers : Well what else is there?

  Jenny : I don't know.

• Girl at teen center : That's right, Jenny, in a way it *is* free, what I mean is it doesn't cost anything but your life.

  Jenny : That sounds pretty expensive.

  Girl at teen center : Well it might seem that way, until you realize that you're living with God who created you. The God who cares for you more than any other person could. That you're letting Him take over. There's no way you could lose.

• Pastor Balmer : I'm reminded of a neighbor I had back in Nebraska who got up one night in the middle of the night, took off his pajama tops and went downstairs for some ice tea. In the meantime his wife had awakened out of her sleep and discovered her husband was gone, turned on the light, found his pajama tops, and was immediately convinced that the rapture had taken place and that she had been left behind. Well from our studies in the past few weeks, we can conclude that we're living now in the end times, the days in which we live are seeing many prophecies being fulfilled that we have never seen fulfilled before. And surely this serves to remind us that the time is short at best, and if we would be followers of Jesus Christ, we must join His band now.

  Susan : [cut to Susan coming home]  Mom, I'm home. Sandy had to go to her aunt's so I came home early. Mom?

  [goes in the kitchen and finds a pot on the stove boiling and burning] 

  Susan : Mom? Mom? Mom?

  [screams] 

  Jenny's mom : [rushes in from the back]  What's the matter?

  [Jenny rushes in too] 

  Susan : I thought you were gone.

  Jenny , Jenny's mom : Gone, gone where?

  Susan : I thought you were gone.

  Jenny's mom : What's wrong?

  Susan : I thought you were gone.

  Jenny's mom : Gone where?

  Susan : I thought you were gone.

  Jenny's mom : Gone where? It's alright honey, it's alright.

• Girl at teen center : But He's done it for us, Jenny, that's why He came to Earth. Jesus Christ was born a human being, and He grew and lived the life that God's holiness demands of each of us. And He was punished and killed, punished as though He was one of us.

  Jenny : That seems so unfair.

  Girl at teen center : Who said love is fair?