Julie Andrews credited as playing...
Jerusha Bromley
- Charles Bromley: And this is my daughter, Miss Jerusha.
- Jerusha Bromley Hale: I'm pleased to make your acquaintance, Reverend Hale.
- [She extends her hand to greet him; he sneezes violently]
- Abner Hale: Oh dear. Did I spray?
- Charles Bromley: No, no, no, not at all.
- Abner Hale: I have always admired the character of Jerusha as set forth in holy scripture. I think, particularly on second Kings, 15:33. "Five and twenty years old was Jotham when he began to reign. And he reigned 16 years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok." It's a lovely verse.
- Jerusha Bromley Hale: Yes. It's beautiful.
- Abner Hale: You wouldn't think of going to Hawaii with a man like me - or, would you?
- Jerusha Bromley Hale: Not if he wasn't my husband.
- Abner Hale: Oh! Goodness! I certainly didn't mean to imply that!
- Abner Hale: Skin is but flesh. Flesh is corruption incarnate!
- Jerusha Bromley Hale: The flesh was given to us by God, too.
- Abner Hale: As a burden. As a temptation. A temptation that you are to me, at this very moment.
- Jerusha Bromley Hale: That's one of the purposes of marriage, isn't it?
- Abner Hale: I'm utterly depraved! I think of nothing but your loveliness, Jerusha.
- Jerusha Bromley Hale: Is it possible for anything to seem lovely without God having wanted it so?
- Jerusha Bromley Hale: I felt so good after my bath, I brushed my skin with oil of lilac.
- Abner Hale: I smell it. Moses forbade the use of perfume!
- Jerusha Bromley Hale: Proverbs say that ointment and perfume rejoice the heart.
- Abner Hale: Isiah cursed the woman who used perfume...
- Jerusha Bromley Hale: Refer, I'm married.
- Capt. Rafer Hoxworth: Married?
- [looks at Abner, back to Jerusha]
- Capt. Rafer Hoxworth: Oh, my God, not to him? What did he do? Pray you into bed?
- Abner Hale: If only I'd had a chance to save it.
- Jerusha Bromley Hale: You had that chance.
- Abner Hale: I mean it's soul!
- Jerusha Bromley Hale: I mean the child.
- Jerusha Bromley Hale: I've never seen a people more generous, more loving, more *filled* with Christian sweetness than these. I will *not* believe that God has rejected them simply because they haven't been baptized.
- Abner Hale: My ministry here is at an end.
- Jerusha Bromley Hale: Your ministry here is not ended. We'll stay here in Lahaina and shelter and protect these people. We will win them to a merciful God - with bonds a charity so strong, they will belong to Him forever.
- Abner Hale: How?
- Jerusha Bromley Hale: By offering what you've always valued most and found it hardest to give - to them and to me: your love.
- Jerusha Bromley Hale: Abner, do you believe every word in the Bible literally?
- Abner Hale: Believe? the Bible is God's holy word written exactly as He commanded. And I believe all. I believe in heaven and in hell and original sin and God's terrible all-consuming wrath!