Mr. Rogers (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)): At the end, Rogers asks the dying man to pray for him. When Lloyd asks Rogers why, he responds, “Someone who is suffering that much must be very close to God.” While Rogers never said this about Junod’s father, in the original profile, he does ask a boy with cerebral palsy he visited in California to pray for him, saying, “I asked him because I think that anyone who has gone through challenges like that must be very close to God.” (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood accuracy: Fact vs. fiction in the Mr. Rogers movie.)
I love that quote, it’s so nice. Sufferance should be avoided, but when you suffer, you become closer to God.
