Rudy (1993)

Robert Prosky: Father Cavanaugh

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• Father Cavanaugh : [in church]  Taking your appeal to a higher authority?

  Rudy : I'm desperate. If I don't get in next semester, it's over. Notre Dame doesn't accept senior transfers.

  Father Cavanaugh : Well, you've done a hell of a job kid, chasing down your dream.

  Rudy : Who cares what kind of job I did if it doesn't produce results? It doesn't mean anything.

  Father Cavanaugh : I think you'll find that it will.

  Rudy : Maybe I haven't prayed enough.

  Father Cavanaugh : I don't think that's the problem. Praying is something we do in our time, the answers come in God's time.

  Rudy : If I've done everything I possibly can, can you help me?

  Father Cavanaugh : Son, in thirty-five years of religious study, I've come up with only two hard, incontrovertible facts; there is a God, and, I'm not Him.

• Father Cavanaugh : Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard incontrovertible facts: there is a God, and I'm not Him.