Thomas Daggett Quotes in The Prophecy (1995)

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?

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 Angles carrying savage weapons."

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: 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.

[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.

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.

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.

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.

Thomas Daggett: When was he buried?

Grave Keeper: Which time?