This Above All (1942)

Alexander Knox: Rector

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• Rector : Whatever you do, don't think anymore. Trust your feelings, not your reason. If you do that I believe your problem may soon be over.

• Clive Briggs : They must have believed in those days - really and truly believed. No one has that kind of faith today.

  Rector : Are you sure? Perhaps you're only speaking for yourself.

• Rector : We've no physical sanctuary any longer but we do help some people find a greater one - a spiritual sanctuary. Peace of mind, you called it just now.

• Policeman with Rector : Well, maybe they haven't uniforms, but they have got the spirit.

  Rector : Look - there's Harry Gates, the poacher, marching with Sir George.

  Policeman with Rector : Ah, poachers is the men for the home guard, sir. They know this country - every inch.

• Rector : Reason deals with the things we know. There are a lot of things we don't know. Faith is useful when reason can't go any further. Faith is simply the quality of believing beyond reason. Isn't that perhaps what troubles you?

• Rector : I see you as a symbol of our age -- an age of reason that's driving out the age of faith.

• Rector : Your mind and your soul -- deadlocked in a struggle. Your body the battleground.