Mother Bernadette: Why do you think God allows his children to suffer?
Marcus: I don't know! So university freshman can have something to argue over in their dormitories!
Mother Bernadette: Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It serves no higher purpose, it simply is.
Marcus: God is not the source of Casey's suffering.
Mother Bernadette: Needlessly torturing a young woman whose body is rotting before our eyes who has zero hope of recovery. That is not compassion.
Marcus. What? And killing her is?!

Father Bennett: So perhaps you'd like to explain to me how a defunct landscaping company funnels nearly $3 million into a papal planning committee four years after going out of business, seeing as it's your job.
Father Simon: I'll tell you what. Why don't I do some digging. Get back to you on that.
Father Bennett: Would you like a shovel?

I'm sorry, Father...Simon, is it? I still don't understand what you're doing here.

Father Bennett

Mother Bernadette: And if it cannot complete the integration, it will kill the girl out of spite! You know this!
Marcus: So what are we supposed to do, then, just give it up? Sorry God, this one's too hard. Can you send us somethin' a bit easier? We stand in the doorway and we push back the darkness. Remember?

Mother Bernadette: If we fail here, we are unleashing an ancient violence into the world.
Marcus: Well let's *not* fail, then.

Father Tomas: I'll tell the family.
Marcus: No! This is not just a possession.
Father Tomas: But they have the right to know!
Marcus: This is a revenge. Can you not see that? Forty years ago, it had Regan's body and it lost it. That is a demon with a 40-year grudge. Now? It wants to torture her daughter in front of her. I'm not going to give it the satisfaction.
Father Tomas: You're asking me to lie!
Marcus: I was this close at the Rance house, I got it swimmin' laps in the lake, God is in me. Yeah! Lie!

The Exorcist Season 1 Episode 7 Quotes

Mother Bernadette: If we fail here, we are unleashing an ancient violence into the world.
Marcus: Well let's *not* fail, then.

Father Tomas: I'll tell the family.
Marcus: No! This is not just a possession.
Father Tomas: But they have the right to know!
Marcus: This is a revenge. Can you not see that? Forty years ago, it had Regan's body and it lost it. That is a demon with a 40-year grudge. Now? It wants to torture her daughter in front of her. I'm not going to give it the satisfaction.
Father Tomas: You're asking me to lie!
Marcus: I was this close at the Rance house, I got it swimmin' laps in the lake, God is in me. Yeah! Lie!