# Help identify this movie quote **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 14, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie-quote/510035 "2009-09-14T15:02:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie-quote/510035/1 "2009-09-14T15:02:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie-quote/510035/2 "2009-09-14T15:38:36Z")
How about Sleepers, with DeNiro and Brad Pitt? It involves a priest and revenge… ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie-quote/510035/3 "2009-09-14T15:40:49Z")
Well, the original original quote is St. Paul, I Corinthians 11 I think. ETA: right verse no. ---
**Author:** ![Scougs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scougs/32/3158_2.png) [@Scougs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scougs)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie-quote/510035/4 "2009-09-14T15:42:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie-quote/510035/5 "2009-09-14T15:46:57Z")
I remember that line from _ **The Crying Game** _. But I don’t think there was a priest involved. ---
**Author:** ![FredGarven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@FredGarven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FredGarven)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie-quote/510035/6 "2009-09-14T15:49:35Z")
[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=](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aimdb.com+%22When+I+was+a+child%2C+I+spake+as+a+child%22&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. ---
**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie-quote/510035/7 "2009-09-14T15:50:35Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![FredGarven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@FredGarven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FredGarven)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie-quote/510035/8 "2009-09-14T15:58:55Z")
There is also a movie called The Mission with this quote in it with Jeremy Irons as Father Gabriel. Could that be the one? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie-quote/510035/9 "2009-09-14T16:03:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie-quote/510035/10 "2009-09-14T16:22:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie-quote/510035/11 "2009-09-14T16:39:54Z")
I’ll just throw in _Keeping the Faith_, Ed Norton and Ben Stiller. Just in case. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie-quote/510035/12 "2009-09-14T17:13:42Z")
> [@coffinjumper](#): > > 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? THAT’S IT!! Yes! Oh you’re good! I was racking my brain all morning trying to come up with that. Thanks all! ---
**Author:** ![Samantha984](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Samantha984](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Samantha984)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie-quote/510035/13 "2026-04-28T00:38:46Z")
Could it be from Black Snake Moan with Samuel Jackson, it is said by the pastor character at the end when Christina Ricci’s character and Justin Timberlake’s character are marrying.