Angels Quotes

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

Author Unknown

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

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790

Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Unknown

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

Comte DeBussy - Rabutin

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

Samuel Johnson

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.

Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly.

Carl Polloi

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

Anton Chekhov, 1897

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

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

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

Horace Mann

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

William Shakespeare

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

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

Michael Sherme

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

Jamie Ann Hunt

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

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

Prove

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.

George Gordon Byron

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

James Madison

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

Pope Gregory The Great

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

Luciano de Crescenzo

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

George MacDonald

Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in.

Franklin P. Jones

Love came down at Christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

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

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

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

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

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

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

Luciano de Crescento

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

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope, (1712)

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Buddha