“The creation waits in eager expectation of liberation from bondage....” – Reverend Joel Jeffers, First Reformed ... Movie Quotes Database

Movie Quote DB

A scene from First Reformed 2018

Reverend Joel Jeffers

The creation waits in eager expectation of liberation from bondage. That's Romans 8:23. You understand?

Reverend Ernst Toller

So, we should pollute so God can restore? We should sin so God can forgive?

In this scene

Reverend Ernst Toller Ethan Hawke More Reverend Ernst Toller quotes →

Reverend Joel Jeffers Cedric the Entertainer More Reverend Joel Jeffers quotes →

More from First Reformed

Michael Mensana Are you a drinking man, Reverend? Reverend Ernst Toller It doesn't help. Reverend Ernst Toller Well, somebody has to do something! It's the Earth that hangs in the balance. Reverend Joel Jeffers Well what if this is His plan? What if we just can't see it? Reverend Ernst Toller You think God wants to destroy his creation? Reverend Joel Jeffers He did once. For 40 days and 40 nights. Reverend Ernst Toller Courage is the solution to despair, reason provides no answers. I can't know what the future will bring; we have to choose despite uncertainty. Wisdom is holding two contradictory truths in our mind, simultaneously, Hope and despair. A life without despair is a life without hope. Holding these two ideas in our head is life itself.