- Gabriel: I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why.
- Thomas Daggett: Did you ever notice how in the Bible, when ever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel?
- Lucifer: Little Tommy Daggett. How I loved listening to your sweet prayers every night. And then you'd jump in your bed, so afraid I was under there. And I was!
- Lucifer: Do you know what Hell really is, Thomas? It's not lakes of burning oil or chains of ice. It's being removed from God's sight, having His Word taken from you. It's hard to believe. so hard. I know that better than anyone.
- Thomas Daggett: If you wanted to prove your side was right, Gabriel, so badly, why didn't you just ask Him? Why didn't you ask God?
- Gabriel: Because He doesn't talk to me any more.
- Thomas Daggett: Years later, of all the Gospels I learnt in seminary school, a verse from St. Paul stays with me. It is perhaps the strangest passage in the Bible, in which he writes: "Even now in Heaven there are angels carrying savage weapons."
- Gabriel: Do you know how you got that dent, in your top lip? Way back, before you were born, I told you a secret, then I put my finger there and I said "Shhhhh!"
- Lucifer: Other angels have made this war because they hate you, you and all humans. God has put you in his grace and pushed them aside. They're desperate. They've never been able to conquer the other loyal angels, and so this war has remained in stalemate for thousands of years. And while this state of affairs endures no soul can meet its god. Your parents, and their parents, and so on from the beginning lie still in wormy earth. Of course, some of them do come to me eventually, for while heaven may be closed I am always open, even on Christmas.
- Thomas Daggett: Some people lose their faith because Heaven shows them too little. But how many people lose their faith because Heaven showed them too much?
- Simon: Do you believe that you are a part of God's plan?
- Thomas Daggett: That's a complicated question.
- Simon: No it isn't.
- Lucifer: Humans... and how I love you talking monkeys for this... know more about war and treachery of the spirit than any angel.
- Lucifer: You see, I'm not here to help you little bitch because I love you or because I care for you, but because two hells is one hell too many, and I can't have that.
- [Thomas has refused Lucifer's offer to "come home" with him]
- Thomas Daggett: I have my soul. I have my faith. What do you have, angel?
- Lucifer: Leave the light on, Thomas.
- Simon: I'm so tired of this war.
- Gabriel: Reject the lie Simon. Join us! Help us make it like it was before the monkeys. You remember? We cast out Lucifer's army, you and I. We threw their rebel thrones from the wall.
- Simon: They wanted to be gods.
- Gabriel: I don't wanna be a god Simon. I just wanna make it like it was, before the lie. When he loved us best.
- [first lines]
- Simon: I remember the First War, the way the sky burned, the faces of angels destroyed. I saw a third of Heaven's legion banished and the creation of Hell. I stood with my brothers and watched Lucifer Fall. But now my brothers are not brothers, and we have come here where we are mortal to steal the Dark Soul, not yet Lucifer's, to serve our cause. I have always obeyed, but I never thought the War would happen again.
- Thomas Daggett: [thumbing through ancient Bible found on the dead John Doe] Cute.
- Joseph: What is it?
- Thomas Daggett: Twenty-third chapter of Saint John's Revelations.
- Joseph: And?
- Thomas Daggett: There is no twenty-third chapter.
- Joseph: Well, maybe this is the Teacher's Edition.
- Lucifer: You know what Hell really is Thomas? It's not lakes of burning oil or chains of ice. It's being removed from God's sight. It's hard to believe... so hard.
- Lucifer: Think, Thomas, think. What is the one thing essential to an angel... the thing that holds his entire being together?
- Thomas Daggett: Faith, faith, faith.
- Lucifer: And what would happen if that faith was tested and an angel, just like you didn't understand? Use that. Use it!
- [last lines]
- Thomas Daggett: [narrating] And in the end, I think it must be about faith, and if faith is a choice, then it can be lost - for a man, an angel, or the devil himself. And if faith means never completely understanding God's plan, then maybe understanding just a part of it - our part - is what it is to have a soul. And maybe in the end, that's what being human is, after all.
- Joseph: And this is for you. He's also a hermaphrodite.
- [lifts the sheet covering the corpse so Thomas can see]
- Joseph: He's got both male and female sex organs.
- Thomas Daggett: Think of the possibilities!
- Joseph: Yeah, you can be impotent and frigid all at the same time.
- Gabriel: It's a big universe Jerry and some things in it are talking monkey work. Monkeys, like you.
- Gabriel: [to Daggett] It's unusual seeing someone your age in a Church on a weeknight. Don't get me wrong. I think it's a sign of excellent character.
- Gabriel: Nice move. Beautifully done. Tommy, you ought to come work for me upstairs. I could get you in now. You'll love it. No one tells you when to go to bed. You eat all the ice cream you want. You get to kill all day all night, just like an Angel!