House M.D. 2x19

House vs. God

Season 2, Episode 19

* House: God talks to him?
   Chase: It's not psychosis, he's just religious. The only medical issue that showed up on the blood work is low sodium.
   House: No, you talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
   Chase: A lot of people experience their religion as something more than symbolic. That doesn't mean...
   House: God ever talk to you when you where in the seminary?
   Chase: No.
   House: God's loss, our gain.


* Chase: You're gonna talk to a patient?
   House: God talks to him. It'd be arrogant of me to assume that I'm better than God.


* House: Faith, that's another word for ignorance, isn't it? I never understood how people could be so proud of believing in something with no proof at all. Like that's an achievement.
   Patient: God's asking for our trust. You can't love somebody and not trust them.
   House: Trust has to be earned. You can't trust someone hiding in a closet.

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* Patient: He spoke with me about you too.
   House: Forgive my enemies? Never date a Taurus when Mercury's in retrograde? Yeah, I learned that one myself... the hard way.
   Patient: God says you look for excuses to be alone.
   House: See, that is exactly the kind of brilliance that sounds deep, but you could say it about any person who doesn't pine for the social approval of everyone he meets. Which you were cleverly able to deduce about me but not being a moron. Next time tell God to be more specific.
   Patient: God wants you to invite Dr. Wilson to your poker game.


* Wilson: Do you think God wants you to die?
   Patient's Dad: This is the way that the Lord often is with his chosen ones. He gives the most trials to those that he loves the most.
   House: How sweet. You abdicate your authority. Avoid those tricky parental issues like whether to let him drive at 16. Just let him die at 15.
   Wilson: So you believe your son is... um, a saint. The way I understand it, one of the hallmarks of a saint is humility. Someone with true humility would consider the possibility that... God hadn't chosen him for that kind of honor. He'd consider the possibility that... he just had an illness.


* House: You have a gift for manipulation.
   Wilson: I listen. I have an actual conversation with people. Which, shockingly, does raise the odds they'll be cooperative.
   House: That's what I'm saying. You read that kid, and you manipulated the hell out of him. Bring pretzels.


* Foreman: There's about a dozen appliances in every home that give off radiation.
   Chase: Dosages that wouldn't hurt a hamster if it was tied to the machine for a year.
   Foreman: If the machine's operating properly...


* House: Pick any random guy off the street. Bring him in here, examine him exhaustively. You will find at least three things wrong with him.


* Patient: Dad, you have to have faith in me.
   Patient's Dad: I have faith in the Lord. You, I trust.


* Patient: My father told me I have to apologize to you.
   House: Still hearing voices?
   Patient: You're lucky. You go through life with a certainty that what you're doing is right. I know how comforting that is.





--- Словарик:
arrogant — высокомерный, надменный, заносчивый; самонадеянный; наглый; бесцеремонный
ignorance — невежество, невежественность
pine — (for, after) жаждать (чего-л.), тосковать (по чему-л.)
abdicate — отрекаться
humility — смиренность, скромность; застенчивость, покорность
pretzel — сухой кренделёк, посыпанный солью
exhaustively — исчерпывающий


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