Angels Quotes

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Luciano de Crescento

Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.

Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 06 - 21 - 05

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.

Henry Vaughn

My kittens look at me like little angels, and always after doing something especially devilish.

Jamie Ann Hunt

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov, 1897

Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen.

Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

William Blake

Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.

Saint Francis de Sales

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

James Madison

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.

Terry Lynn Taylo

Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

Mark Twain

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

Anthony Trollope

How many angels are there One - who transforms our live - Is plenty.

Prove

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Hebrews 13: 2

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

William Blake

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Luciano de Crescenzo

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

Pope Gregory The Great

The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.

Phillips Brooks

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope, (1712)

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden, Chapter 13, Part II

Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed.

Angel Blessing

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Horace Mann

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing each other.

Comte DeBussy - Rabutin

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

Mark Twain

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Clive Staples Lewis