“In my experience, the more you know of the gods, the more you know what you cannot understand.”

“Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.”

“And therefore you must know that you can forfeit the grace and help of God by your willful sinning or negligence, though you cannot, without grace, turn to God. If you will not do what you can, it is just with God to deny you that grace by which you might do more.”

“I know and understand you are much more than what I think you are but first I must deal with you the way I think you even if that's only my own thinking and not you.”

“What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don't forget.”

“LSD lets you in on something. When you're tripping, the idea of race disappears; the idea of sex disappears; you don't even know what species you are sometimes. And I don't know of anybody who hasn't come back from that being more humane, more thoughtful, more understanding.”

“I love you Clary. More then I ever-- God. More than i probably should. You know that, don't you?”

“The question posed most often is: How do you know you aren't dreaming, that what you experience is nothing more than a vivid dream or a hallucination of some sort?”

“God, to breathe. Air. You don’t know what it means until you cannot take a breath”

““Can’t you understand what an important task we’ve been entrusted with?”
“By whom, or what? God? This whole experience has made me agree even more with Camus: if there is a God, I despise Him.””