It is you who bless me, and give me back the strength that I had lost. (RHODA: I?) A little while ago you told me your life's bitter story. I tasted your struggle, went down with you into the depths of your anguish, and in those depths,--the miracle! Behold, once more the stars looked down upon me from their places, and I stood wondering as a child wonders. Out of those depths arose new-born happiness and new-risen hope. For in those star-lit depths of pain and grief, I had found at last true love. You needed me. You needed all the powers I had thrown away for your sake. You needed what the whole world needs--healing, healing, and as I rose to meet that need, the power that I had lost poured back into my soul. (RHODA: Oh, if I thought that could be!) By the mystery that is man, and the mercy that is God, I say it is so.-- (Puts his hand on her head, and gazes into her face.) I looked into your eyes once, and they were terrible as an army with banners. I look again now, and I see they are only a girl's eyes, very weak, very pitiful. I told you of a place, high in the great mountains. I tell you now of another place higher yet, in more mysterious mountains. Let us go there together, step by step, from faith to faith, and from strength to strength, for I see depths of life open and heights of love come out, which I never dreamed of till now! (A song rises outside, nearer and louder than before.)

Ulrich Michaelis Monologue from The Faith Healer: A Play in Three Acts

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