Pull quotes for a hypothetical second edition

[Dalillama]

Originally Posted by Rocket Man

Infernal Interventions
"Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters descend upon us."
-- A Christmas Story

On a similar note:

Till in the mid-illusion
Of Godhead 'neath our hand,
Falls multiple confusion
On all we did or planned -
The mighty works we planned
Kipling, Hymn of Breaking Strain

[Rocket Man]

Timeline
"History is gossip that's been legitimized."
--Esther Friesner

(Hey, it's a second edition, of course we'd want to include a timeline!)

[Rocket Man]

Seraphim
"
“... the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger....”
--Esther M. Friesner

Reaction Rolls (or Mercurians)
"Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary."
--Tamora Pierce

Cherubim
"From infancy to death human life is surrounded by their (the angels) watchful care and intercession. Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life. ..."
--Catechism of the Catholic Church 336

Cherubic Bonds
"It’s not like love at first sight, really. It’s more like… gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it’s not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her."
--Stephenie Meyer
(Yes, yes, I know, but it does fit.)

Malakim
"O my lord God, do not forsake me when I face Hell's legions.
In Thy name and with Thy blessing, I go forth to cleanse the night."
--Lilith Saintcrow - The Hunter's Prayer

[Rocket Man]

And because I couldn't resist:

Ofanim
“Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.”
― Carl Hiaasen

[Matthias Wasser]

Malakim
There be spirits that are created for vengeance, which in their fury lay on sore strokes; in the time of destruction they pour out their force, and appease the wrath of him that made them.
Fire, and hail, and famine, and death, all these were created for vengeance;
Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions, and the sword, punishing the wicked to destruction.
They shall rejoice in his commandment, and they shall be ready upon earth, when need is; and when their time is come, they shall not transgress his word.
Sirach 39:28-31

[Rocket Man]

Originally Posted by Matthias Wasser

Malakim
There be spirits that are created for vengeance, which in their fury lay on sore strokes; in the time of destruction they pour out their force, and appease the wrath of him that made them.
Fire, and hail, and famine, and death, all these were created for vengeance;
Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions, and the sword, punishing the wicked to destruction.
They shall rejoice in his commandment, and they shall be ready upon earth, when need is; and when their time is come, they shall not transgress his word.
Sirach 39:28-31

Well chosen!

[ISNorden]

Seraphim (perhaps especially those who serve Revelation):

Above all things Truth beareth away the victory: great is Truth, mighty above all things. - III Esdras 3:12,4:41

[robkelk]

The Symphony

Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.
- Frank Zappa, Oui magazine, April 1979


God's Absence

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
- Oscar Wilde, quoted by Alvin Redman in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde


Low-Contrast or Backwards In Nomine

If you will take the trouble to consult your dictionary, you will find that demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings. Originally all demons were good, yet of late years people have come to consider all demons evil. I do not know why.
- L. Frank Baum, The Master Key


Balseraphs

The enemy is subtle, how be it we're deceived?
When the truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe?
- Bob Dylan, Precious Angel

[Rocket Man]

Character Creation
“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.”
--Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

[Rocket Man]

Habbalah

“Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?”
--Lloyd Alexander, The High King