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The Story of Ruth Quotes

The Story of Ruth is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . The Story of Ruth stopped airing in 1970.

It features Samuel G. Engel as producer, Franz Waxman in charge of musical score, and Arthur E. Arling as head of cinematography.

The Story of Ruth is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Story of Ruth is 132 minutes long. The Story of Ruth is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Elana Eden as Ruth, Tom Tryon as Mahlon, Eduard Franz as Jehoam, Les Tremayne as Elimelech, and Peggy Wood as Naomi.

The Story of Ruth Quotes

Elana Eden as Ruth

  • (Elana Eden) "He taught me to care about living things, but he never told me of the pain of caring."
  • (Peggy Wood) "Pain on entering the world, anguish on leaving it. But the interval between is worth it all."
  • (Elana Eden) "How can you say that in such an hour? Look around you, at this hard wilderness, and what do you see but mourning women? Where is Mahlon's invisible God of mercy? Where are his blessings?"
  • (Peggy Wood) "You are one of them. You gave my son joy, and you sent him away with peace in his soul. I am grateful, my lady."
  • (Elana Eden) "Why do you look at me like that?"
  • (Tom Tryon) "Because you are so beautiful, so very beautiful. Don't you know that you are?"
  • (Elana Eden) "I have never thought about it."
  • (Tom Tryon) "No one has ever told you? No man has ever looked at you as I do?"
  • (Elana Eden) "If -- if he has, I have not seen it."
  • (Tom Tryon) "You were not watching for it. Isn't it pleasant, even for a priestess to be told that she is beautiful, especially when it's true?"
  • (Elana Eden) "Is beauty so important?"
  • (Tom Tryon) "The beauty that's within, as I know it is with you."
  • (Elana Eden) "How do you know?"
  • (Tom Tryon) "I am older than you, and the years teach."
  • (Elana Eden) "Since you say your God is everywhere -- perchance I am stepping on him right now."
  • (Tom Tryon) "Indirectly, yes, the Earth being one of his creations."
  • (Elana Eden) "The Earth? Then you may as well claim that he made the moon too."
  • (Tom Tryon) "It is told that he made two great lights in the heavens. The greater to rule the day and the lesser to rule the night."
  • (Elana Eden) "And all other luminous objects in the sky, I suppose."
  • (Tom Tryon) "Yes. And one closer by."
  • (Elana Eden) "Entreat me not to leave you, or to keep from following you. For where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God."

Eduard Franz as Jehoam

  • (Eduard Franz) "Yonder is a city whose name will one day be known in the far places of the Earth -- Bethlehem of Judah. Generations have yet to pass before its star shall rise in the east. Much shall happen in these lands and be told. For nearby, across the Jordan in the land of Moab, lives a people who of old have hated the God of Israel and who serve a god of stone, Chemosh, thirsty for the blood of the young and the innocent."

Tom Tryon as Mahlon

  • (Tom Tryon) "It is my doing. I had no right to bring this down on you."
  • (Les Tremayne) "No. The sin is on my head. I am punished for leaving our people in Bethlehem in time of trouble. I was rich, but denied the poor. I had bread, but denied the hungry. I had substance, but took it with me."
  • (Tom Tryon) "Suppose you wish to pray, but you're not near an image of Chemosh."
  • (Elana Eden) "Then I go to him."
  • (Tom Tryon) "Well, suppose a soldier of Moab is wounded on a field of battle and cannot get to an image of Chemosh to pray for his life."
  • (Elana Eden) "Then he thinks of Chemosh."
  • (Tom Tryon) "But the Chemosh he's thinking of is invisible at the time he thinks of him. In my work, gracious lady, I have sometimes repaired your god. Isn't it hard to believe that a god who cracks and crumbles and can be repaired by a mere artisan like myself can be the same god who makes the birds sing and the sun rise and set? How can a god whose own head gets broken mend the broken heads of his soldiers?"

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