Salvation and Secrets in Elmer Gantry
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Tell em, Gantry... save em from sin... lead em to salvation... tell em about everything - but not about your whiskey and your women!
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Confronting Sin and Eternal Consequences
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You're all sinners... You'll all burn in hell!
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Gantry's Dual Pursuit of Profit and Redemption
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If there was a dollar to be made - Gantry would make it... If there was a soul to be saved - Gantry would save it...
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Debate on Prohibition and Drinking
Jim Lefferts:
You look like a man who could use a drink.
Elmer Gantry:
You know somethin', Jim? There oughta be a law against drinkin'.
Jim Lefferts:
There is. Prohibition.
Elmer Gantry:
That's against sellin', not drinkin'.
Jim Lefferts:
Amen.
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Reflections on Faith and Human Connection
Sister Sharon Falconer:
But tonight is a thousand years away.
George Babbitt:
Besides, I'm for a free press, for free enterprise... and for whatever the hell the other freedoms are!
Lady in red on Christmas Eve:
That's the trouble with this stinking world. Nobody loves nobody.
Clean-up man:
Mister, I've been converted five times. Billy Sunday, Reverend Biederwolf, Gypsy Smith, and twice by Sister Falconer. I get terrible drunk, and then I get good and saved. Both of them done me a powerful lot of good - gettin drunk and gettin saved. Well, good night.
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Fear and Salvation in a Moment of Crisis
Lulu Bains:
Oh, he gave me special instructions back of the pulpit Christmas Eve. He got to howlin "Repent! Repent!" and I got to moanin "Save me! Save me!" and the first thing I know he rammed the fear of God into me so fast I never heard my old man's footsteps!
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Determination to Overcome Alcohol Addiction
Elmer Gantry:
As long as I got a foot, I'll kick booze. And, as long as I got a fist, I'll punch it. And, as long as I got a tooth, I'll bite it. And, when I'm old and gray and toothless and bootless, I'll gum it till I go to heaven and booze goes to hell.
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Critique of Urban Moral Decay
Elmer Gantry:
I was accosted by three painted women. Your streets are made unsafe by shameless, diseased hussies, rapacious pick-pockets, and insidious opium-smokers.
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Confession of Moral Conflict and Temptation
Elmer Gantry:
I have here in my pocket - and thank heaven you can't see them - lewd, dirty, obscene, and I'm ashamed to say this: French postcards. They were sold to me in front of your own innocent high school by a man with a black beard... a foreigner.
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The Consequences of Sin and Repentance
Elmer Gantry:
Sin. Sin, Sin. You're all sinners. You're all doomed to perdition. You're all goin to the painful, stinkin', scaldin', everlastin tortures of a fiery hell, created by God for sinners, unless, unless, unless you repent.
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The True Strength of Divine Love
Elmer Gantry: [Pointing to a picture]
You think, uh, religion is for suckers and easy marks and molly-coddlers, eh? You think Jesus was some kind of a sissy, hey? Well, let me tell you, Jesus wouldn't be afraid to walk into this joint or any other speakeasy to preach the gospel. Jesus had guts. He wasn't afraid of the whole Roman army. Think that quarterback's hot stuff? Well, let me tell you, Jesus would have made the best little All-American quarterback in the history of football. Jesus was a real fighter - the best little scrapper, pound for pound, you ever saw. And why, gentlemen? Love, gentlemen. Jesus had love in both fists! And what is love? Love is the mornin and the evenin star. It shines on the cradle of the Babe. Hear ye, sinners. Love is the inspiration of poets and philosophers. Love is the voice of music. I'm talkin about divine love - not carnal love.
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