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Sister Luke: You can cheat your sisters, but you cannot cheat yourself or God.
Rev. Mother Emmanuel: Have you struggled long enough to say surely that you've come to the end?
Sister Luke: I think I've been struggling all these years, Reverend Mother. In the beginning each struggle seemed different from the one before it. But then they began to repeat, and I saw they all had the same core: obedience. Without question, without inner murmuring. Perfect obedience as Christ practiced it. As I no longer can.
Rev. Mother Emmanuel: Yes?
Sister Luke: There are times when my conscience asks which has priority. It or the Holy Rule? When the bell calls me to chapel, I often have to sacrifice what might be the decisive moment in a spiritual talk with a patient. I'm late every day for chapel or refectory or both. When I have night duty I break the Grand Silence because I can no longer cut short a talk with a patient who seems to need me. Mother, why must God's helpers be struck dumb by five bells in the very hours when men in trouble want to talk about their souls?
Rev. Mother Emmanuel: Have you struggled long enough to say surely that you've come to the end?
Sister Luke: I think I've been struggling all these years, Reverend Mother. In the beginning each struggle seemed different from the one before it. But then they began to repeat, and I saw they all had the same core: obedience. Without question, without inner murmuring. Perfect obedience as Christ practiced it. As I no longer can.
Rev. Mother Emmanuel: Yes?
Sister Luke: There are times when my conscience asks which has priority. It or the Holy Rule? When the bell calls me to chapel, I often have to sacrifice what might be the decisive moment in a spiritual talk with a patient. I'm late every day for chapel or refectory or both. When I have night duty I break the Grand Silence because I can no longer cut short a talk with a patient who seems to need me. Mother, why must God's helpers be struck dumb by five bells in the very hours when men in trouble want to talk about their souls?
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You can cheat your sisters
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but you cannot cheat yourself or God
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Have you struggled long enough to say surely that you've come to the end
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I think I've been struggling all these years Reverend Mother
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In the beginning each struggle seemed different from the one before it
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But then they began to repeat
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and I saw they all had the same core obedience
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without question
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without inner murmuring
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Perfect obedience as Christ practiced it
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as I no longer can
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Yes
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There are times when my conscience asks which has priority
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It or the Holy Rule
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When the bell calls me to chapel
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I often have to sacrifice what might be the decisive moment
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in a spiritual talk with a patient
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I'm late every day for chapel or refectory or both
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When I have night duty I break the Grand Silence
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because I can no longer cut short a talk with a patient who seems to need me
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Mother why must God's helpers be struck dumb by five bells
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in the very hours when men in trouble want to talk about their souls
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You entered the convent to be a nun not to be a nurse
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The religious life must be more important to you than your love of medicine
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Won't you make one more effort for God
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And for me as His instrument
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I have tried Reverend Mother
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When I go from here I shall take you with me in my heart
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and keep you each day in my prayers
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Lisa Sister
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Lisa you often talked about entering the convent
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Movie Summary
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
