- Bishop: It always troubled me, the Trinity. You know, Giuseppe, I could never really understand it. Does it trouble you?
- Bishop: No. There are three persons in one God. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Three in one.
- Bishop: Yes, but that's for a child. But a small comfort to a Bishop. You see, I'm a peasant, Giuseppe, just like you. A practical man, so I understand only what I feel, and what I see.
- Giuseppe: Look, look. One blanket and one, two, three folds. Three folds in one blanket - three persons in one God, like the Trinity.
- Don Raspi: [looking after Giuseppe] The senseless man seeks in vain for wisdom. Proverbs: 14.
- Father Giovanni: True. But the fear of the Lord is training for wisdom, and humility goes before honors. Proverbs: 15.
- Bishop: Brother Giuseppe! I knew you'd be here someday.
- Giuseppe: [overjoyed that the Bishop remembers him] Your Excellency.
- Bishop: How are the lambs?
- Giuseppe: Oh, they are sheep now, your Excellency.
- Bishop: Oh yes, of course. Has it been that long? And the studies - they've been hard, eh?
- Giuseppe: [sighs and nods] But mostly I miss the stables. That's where I really belong, I shouldn't be here.
- Bishop: Let me be the judge of that, Giuseppe. There will be many lost sheep to care for.
- Father Giovanni: Look at him. Do you really believe there is a devil lurking inside that humble young man?
- Don Raspi: There was once a Lucifer in heaven.
- Don Raspi: Charity and love are capital virtues, Brother Giuseppe, but my favorite virtue is promptness.
- Mother: They have thrown you out. They don't want you back because you are an idiot. You have been nothing but trouble since the day you got there - since the day you were born! What have you done this time? Tell me. Answer!
- Mother: I broke a statue.
- Mother: For breaking a little statue they throw you out like a dog?
- Giuseppe: It wasn't little, it was big.
- Father Giovanni: You have a whole year to prepare yourself, with the best instructors of the order.
- Giuseppe: I'll miss the stables.
- Father Giovanni: Gobbo will look after the animals.
- Giuseppe: Father Giovanni, couldn't I stay...
- Father Giovanni: No.
- Giuseppe: - in the stables?
- Father Giovanni: No.
- Giuseppe: I will work harder than...
- Father Giovanni: No, Giuseppe.
- Giuseppe: Just to stay...
- Father Giovanni: Obedience, Giuseppe, is the first rule.
- Mother: Giuseppe, Giuseppe. Do you think I kept you in school all these years for this piece of paper? Do you think it didn't break my heart to see you, a grown man, among school boys? But at least I knew where you were, a place to go every day where the Sisters could look after you. Now - what will I do with you? What will you do with yourself?
- Brother Orlando: Recite the 14th chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians.
- Giuseppe: What man of you, having a thousand sheep, and losing one of them...
- Brother Orlando: No, look again! I said Corinthians! There is more to scripture than the gospel of Saint Luke!
- Giuseppe: But I like Saint Luke.
- Brother Orlando: That's beside the point. You've got to know the entire bible. Now, the 14th chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians...
- Brother Orlando: How I envy you.
- Giuseppe: Next year you will be standing here, and I will be your alter boy.
- Brother Orlando: I hope so!