Help identify this movie quote

This quote popped into my head this morning but I can’t place where I’ve heard it. It was something I saw recently, so I think it was a new movie, though it could have been something shown on TV. A man is in a church, I think sitting in a pew talking to the priest. The man asks the priest, “How does that quote go? 'When I was a child I spoke as a child…?” and the priest replies by quoting the line “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” I think this was to show that the man was now going to either get revenge, or confess something, or protect his family, something big like that.

I looked on IMDB and no it’s **not **Hackers, The Mission or Horatio Hornblower as I have never seen any of those.

Some films I saw within the past months were Inglourious Basterds, District 9, The Time-Traveler’s Wife, Atonement & Ichi the Killer. Any of those sound right? It may have been a TV show.

How about Sleepers, with DeNiro and Brad Pitt? It involves a priest and revenge…

Well, the original original quote is St. Paul, I Corinthians 11 I think.

ETA: right verse no.

Are you trying to identify what it is that you saw (TV or movie), or where the quote originally comes from?

I don’t normally do biblical stuff, but the quote is from 1 Corinthians chapter 13. Apologies if you already knew that.

I remember that line from The Crying Game. But I don’t think there was a priest involved.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aimdb.com+"When+I+was+a+child%2C+I+spake+as+a+child"&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

Someone writes this in a user comment about A Scanner Darkly. I don’t know if it was in that movie though.

This isn’t a movie, but just in case…

Those exact circumstances were used in the season finale of Being Human. Right before the werewolf decided to take on the big bad of the season, a vampire. Could this be what you’re thinking of?

There is also a movie called The Mission with this quote in it with Jeremy Irons as Father Gabriel. Could that be the one?

The only movie I REMEMBER using that quote was “North Dallas Forty,” in which the Tom Landry-esque coach (G.D. Spradlin) recites it to the Peter Gent-ish receiver (Nick Nolte).

But I’ll look further.

This seems pretty familiar to me, and it may not be Sleepers but it seems like it was something similar. I almost think it might have been a comic-book based movie. I seem to recall the characters or at least the priest perhaps being Irish.

I’ll just throw in Keeping the Faith, Ed Norton and Ben Stiller.

Just in case.

THAT’S IT!! Yes! Oh you’re good! I was racking my brain all morning trying to come up with that.

Thanks all!