Mercy Streets (2000)

David A.R. White: John, Jeremiah

Quotes 

• Rome : Harry's okay.

  John : Harry talks.

  Rome : Not anymore.

• TJ : Let me ask you somethin'. If you're a priest, how come you get to have a girlfriend? What's up with that?

  Jeremiah : I'm Episcopal . . .

  [long pause] 

  Jeremiah : ...not Catholic.

• Jeremiah : Last night I almost beat a total stranger to death, and I have no idea why. I'm supposed to be ordained a priest in less than a month. My brother hates me, my girlfriend won't marry me because she knows that I am a total fraud, and the only way that I can fix it all is to rip off these guys that I - I don't know, using money I don't have.

• John : What are you so happy about, TJ? Your girlfriend drop the charges?

• [John is preparing to hotwire a vehicle he has just broken into. Sunny, in the passenger seat, takes a drag off her cigarette] 

  John : There's no smoking in my car!

• [Discussing Jeremiah's sermon] 

  Sam : It definitely shows that you know the Bible. It's just... very long.

  Jeremiah : It's as long as it should be.

  Sam : I know, I know. It's just a lot of... detail to take in all at once.

  Jeremiah : Sam, that's the whole point. The detail is what makes the passage so relevant.

  Sam : It's not the passage. It's just... if you could deliver with a little more . . .

  Tex : [interrupting]  Sermon sucked, brother.

• Jeremiah : My brother's alive?

  Rome : Temporarily.