"Those are none of them virtues of a god. Those are simply the signifiers of devotion." Minus the gregarious. Astartes aren't the guys you go to for diplomacy or cuddliness.

"And what god do you serve with your imperfect duty?" If not the Emperor, then who else is there? Gadriel does glance over his shoulder, quickly, just in case a Chaplain might have somehow materialized behind him. Quintus was an exacting Chaplain and even this much talk might seem heretical.