Ordet (1955)

Henrik Malberg: Morten Borgen

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• Morten Borgen : I can't stand your undertaker faces.

  Peter Petersen : Yes, I've heard that before. No, you, you have the bright, happy Christianity, while we, we are the dark of soul and undertakers. But since you are one of the bright and happy Christians, why do you always look so miserable when one meets you? I feel so free and glad, because I know there is a place waiting for me in heaven.

  Morten Borgen : And the rest of us, all the rest of us, we go straight down to hell to eternal torments, don't we? Yes, that's what you think, isn't it?

  Peter Petersen : Yes. Words, words, you have them all right.

• Morten Borgen : Do you know what the difference is between your faith and mine? You think Christianity is sullenness and self-torment. I think Christianity is the fullness of life. My faith is for all day long and joy in life. Yours is the longing of death. My faith is the warmth of life. Yours is the coldness of death.

• Morten Borgen : Have I ever been in love? At least ten times.

• Morten Borgen : This is madness - and yet - what is madness and what is reason?

• Inger Borgen : Johannes will be himself again.

  Morten Borgen : I've hoped and hoped he might, but he'll never get any better.

  Inger Borgen : Why don't you believe so?

  Morten Borgen : Miracles don't happen any more.

  Inger Borgen : Nothing is impossible, if one prays to Him for it.

  Morten Borgen : I have prayed and prayed and prayed, Inger.

  Inger Borgen : Then you must go on praying, for Jesus has promised what we pray to him for, He will give us.

  Morten Borgen : I know, Inger, I know - but what good have all my prayers done?

• Morten Borgen : That's the trouble with doctors - they always believe in what's least worth believing.

• Morten Borgen : Oh! Thank God, now the tears have come.

• Morten Borgen : What good does all this do, Johannes?

  Johannes Borgen : I am the light of the world, but the darkness does not comprehend it. I have come unto mine own, but mine own does not receive me.

• Morten Borgen : Karen, Karen, we must have - Inger's getting better, she's getting over it - we must have coffee, coffee, from real coffee beans.