“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players. We have our exits and our entrances and one man in his time plays many parts.”

You could play Caiaphas or Pilate forever, and think that causation is external, or is in the hands of the political or the religious powers, or the great universities.

there is always the political power, and the religious power, and the wise men, called the Sadducees, and those who conform to that which they think will make them important in the eyes of men – the Pharisees

When Olivier plays Hamlet, Hamlet can do nothing but what Olivier does, and then Olivier can if he wishes play another character altogether.

So if I have to play a part over and over until I am buried in the part, I will be buried until I learn I am the actor and not the part I am playing.

As you read it, see only one being playing all the parts, and that is Job and that is you. He is in conflict with himself, and at the very end he is integrated.

At the end of playing all the parts, who are you? You’re not Hamlet and you’re not the mother or the murderous uncle, the wounded and dead father, or any part. You are the actor.

To tell you that Stalin and the Pope are played by the same being, you might be shocked, but there is no other being to play the part.

like Hamlet remaining after Lawrence Olivier makes his exit from this world. And so he remains, as part of the eternal structure of the play called Hamlet.

You were shown the whole thing like a play going on a stage tonight, and someone moved across the stage and they played the perfect play of God’s only salvation, the only way that man could be saved.

It was all portrayed to Abraham. “And Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day.” Then he went into the foreign land, as he was led by the spirit, but he still remained faithful to what he had seen in the play.

I accept literally the saying that all the world’s a stage, and I believe that God plays all the parts. The purpose of the play: to transform man, the created, into God, the creator.