“- Miss Clavel: We'll find her. I promise you. We have to have faith.
- Madeline: I used to wish so hard for my parents to be alive again, but you can't make something happen just by wishing for it.”

Frances McDormand - Miss Clavel
Hatty Jones - Madeline

“- Lacey: If I was God…puppies would be puppies forever, and everybody would have someone and fathers wouldn’t abandon their kids… What about you?
- Carlos: There would be no more war, no one killing anyone.”
Alexa PenaVega - Lacey
Joseph Julian Soria - Carlos

“I got faith in God, President Roosevelt, and the Brooklyn Dodgers in the order of their importance.”
Sam Levene - Abel "Chips" Abrams

“- Gretta Milano: Do you believe in God?
- John Hobbes: Yeah, I mean, you know, I go to church every now and then. What I see in my line of work... faith's a little hard I sustain.”
Embeth Davidtz - Gretta Milano
Denzel Washington - John Hobbes

“Life has to go on Jack. With or without God.”
Melissa Leo - Marianne Jordan