The Rite Quotes

Father Xavier For example, paranoid schizophrenics are not aware that they're deluded.

Michael Kovak Neither are the possessed while they're being possessed, are they?

Father Xavier But people who are possessed have periods of lucidity. That's my point.

Michael Kovak So do schizophrenics.

Father Xavier One can't suddenly manifest abilities simply because one is deluded. The man on this tape is German. How does he spontaneously speak Russian?

Michael Kovak How could a boy in a village in Africa found 400 miles from his home claim that he was abducted by aliens? It's just as unlikely. But we're willing to call him crazy and your German man not because he believes in aliens, not God.

Father Lucas Trevant Be careful Michael, choosing not to believe in the devil doesn't protect you from him.

Father Lucas Trevant The interesting thing about skeptics, atheists, is that we're always looking for proof, certainty. The question is, "what on earth would we do if we found it?" There are times when I experience a total loss of faith. Days, months, when I don't know what I believe in: God, or the devil, Santa Claus, or Tinker Bell. But, I'm just a man. I'm a weak man. I have no power. Yet, there's something that keeps digging and scraping away, inside me. Feel's like God's fingernail. And finally I can take no more of the pain, and I get shoved out from the darkness, back into the light.

Taglines You can only defeat it when you believe.

Eddie Wait, wait, wait, wait. Seminary school, really? Wait, is this your way of telling me you're gay?

Eddie I'm just joking. Okay? Joke.

Michael Kovak You don't get it. In my family, you're either a mortician or a priest. That's it.

Eddie Well, then change your name!

Taglines Inspired by true events.

Father Xavier Tell me, Michael, do you believe in sin?

Michael Kovak Yeah, I just don't necessarily believe the devil makes us do it.

Father Xavier He that committeth sin is of the devil.

Michael Kovak Then that'd be all of us, wouldn't it? And if we're all of the devil, how do we fight him?

Michael Kovak I believe that people prefer to lie to themselves than face the truth.

Father Lucas Trevant The terror is real, Michael. It's real. But you'll only defeat it when you believe. So go now, lock me up. Go now. Lock me up!

Father Lucas Trevant Faith becomes you. Stay with it. Keep fighting the good fight with all thy might.

Michael Kovak Cool.

Father Lucas Trevant Get out of here...

Angeline So you're having a final fling with atheism?

Michael Kovak Well, I guess it's more like an ex-girlfriend who keeps coming around.