- [Father Mac is holding Tony on the train tracks at gunpoint]
- Tony Pronti: You're crazy, man. You're a priest! You you can't do this!
- Father McRoberts: I was a man first, kid.
- Tony Pronti: All right, just tell me what you want and I'll do it.
- Father McRoberts: I want you to bring Sonny back! I want you to brink back the clerk.
- Tony Pronti: I can't bring 'em back! I'm not God, and neither are you, man!
- Father McRoberts: Then may He forgive us both, son.
- Father McRoberts: [telling Sam about his time in the war] The enemy ran suicide squads at us all day long. All day. I don't know how many men I killed that day - fifty, hundred... I just can't remember anymore. But I swore, if I lived, I'd spend the rest of my life making up for it.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: So you became a priest.
- Father McRoberts: It seemed like a good start at the time. Now I don't know.
- Father McRoberts: [to Sam - in the body of Frank Pistano - about the Montocelli sisters] I was here ten years before they quit reviewing my sermons. Now they just shoot me dirty looks from the front row. At least you're Italian. They consider being Irish a birth defect.