Private Confessions (1996)

Pernilla August: Anna

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• Anna : Do you believe in God, Uncle Jacob? A Father in Heaven, a God of Love? A God with hands, and a heart, and watching eyes?

  Jacob : Don't use the word "God." Say "Holiness." There's holiness in everyone. Human holiness. All else is attributes, disguise, manifestation, and trickery. You can never make out or capture human holiness. At the same time... it's something to cling to. Something tangible, lasting unto death. What happens then is hidden from us. It's only the poets, musicians, and saints who may depict that which we can but discern: The inconceivable. They've seen, known, understood -- not fully, but in fragments. To me, it's a comfort to think about human holiness.