“May the Lord be in your heart to confess your sins. Yes?” – Father Kanavan, The Exorcist III ... Movie Quotes Database

Father Kanavan

[makes the Sign of the Cross]

May the Lord be in your heart to confess your sins. Yes?

Penitent

I have a... a... scrupulous conscience, Father. This need to... confess... so many things. If I... step on... two straws on the shape of the Cross, I feel that I have to confess it. It torments me.

Father Kanavan

Try and make a good confession, and remember, Christ forgives all our sins.

Penitent

Only little things. Nothing. Seventeen of them, Father. The first was that waitress in Candlestick Park. I cut her throat and watched her bleed. She bled a great deal. It's a problem I'm working on, Father. All this bleeding.
[begins cackling diabolically; Kanavan looks on in horror]

In this scene

Father Kanavan Harry Carey Jr.

Penitent Teresa Wright

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