The Mission (1986)
Robert De Niro: Mendoza
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Quotes
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Mendoza : Though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Love suffereth and love is kind. Love envieth not. Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. But now abideth faith, hope, love... these three. But the greatest of these is love.
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Mendoza : I want to renounce my vows of obedience.
Gabriel : Get out.
Mendoza : I want to explain...
Gabriel : Get out, Rodrigo. I won't listen to you.
[pause]
Gabriel : Just you?
Mendoza : No, it's Ralph and John too.
Gabriel : What do you want captain, an honorable death?
Mendoza : They want to live, Father. They say that God has left them, He's deserted them. Has He?
Gabriel : You shouldn't have become a priest.
Mendoza : But I am a priest, and they need me.
Gabriel : Then help them as a priest! If you die with blood on your hands, Rodrigo, you betray everything we've done. You promised your life to God. And God is love!
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Mendoza : I'm sorry, I was trained as a mercenary, not as a cook.