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The synthesis of Love and Justice can produce only Mercy and Forgiveness, Your Honor! If a just God sits in Heaven, it can fall no other way!
Your Honor, the only person who needs forgiveness is the one who doesn’t deserve it.
Boy, one must participate in one’s own salvation. In order to hear, one must be willing to listen. When you turn off God, you are saying: “I know better than you.” No good, boy. No good.
Number One, you cannot conjure or “bring about” mental illness. Number Two, any God who punishes the mentally ill is not worth worshipping.
There’s a concept, Cunningham, called Playing the Cards You Are Dealt—One can either accept that concept or one can slowly lose one’s mind, heart, and soul. I’d like to be more helpful to you here, but really, that’s what it all comes down to.
And what I want you to trust is the efficacy of divine love if practiced consciously. And what I need you to believe is that if you hate who I love, you do not know me at all. And make no mistake, “Who I Love” is every last one. I am every last one. People ask of me: Where are you? Where are you? … Verily I ask of you to ask yourself: Where are you? Where are you?
JUDAS: I would have never believed that you could have left me. JESUS: I never left you. JUDAS: That you didn’t love me. JESUS: I do love you. JUDAS: Why … didn’t you make me good enough … so that you could’ve loved me?
And here's where my heart shattered into tiny pieces.
A long beat. JESUS sighs, takes off his shirt, plunges it in the bucket, rinses it, and begins to wash JUDAS’s feet. JESUS washes meticulously and with care. He washes. And washes. Perhaps the water is mixed with tears. Lights fade. The end
