Angel Quotes - Page 11

• Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.

  Billy Graham

  Inspiring, Character, Play

  Billy Graham (2009). “Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

  Marge Piercy

  Eye, Brain, Piglet

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.117, Knopf

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• Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women
  can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead, an
  inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those
  storms with hope and serenity.

  Sam Ervin

  Spiritual, Religious, Men

  Sam J. Ervin Jr. (2014). “Humor of a Country Lawyer”, p.88, UNC Press Books

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• Hope is the parent of Faith.

  C. A. Bartol

  Hope, Hopeful, Parent

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• Angels live no place, as God lives no place. They live in the space of eternity, in the center of our hearts, and sometimes I think we each serve as the channels and angels of God, touched by wings of silence, pushed to angelic acts.

  Sophy Burnham

  Heart, Thinking, Wings

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.192, Penguin

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• It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!

  Edward Taylor

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  Edward Taylor, “I Am The LIVIng Bread: Meditation Eight: John 6:51”

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• An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.

  Ian MacKaye

  Mean, Doors, Devil

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• United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.

  Pope John Paul II

  Holy Eucharist, Church, Saint

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• Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

  Mother Teresa

  Travel, Memorable, Riding Your Bike

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• The stairway is not
  a thing of gleaming strands
  a radiant evanescence
  for angels' feet that only glance in their tread, and need not
  touch the stone.

  Denise Levertov

  Feet, Needs, Stones

  Denise Levertov (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• This Sacrament really contains You, O my God, You whom the Angels adore, in whose presence the Spirits and mighty Powers tremble. Oh! if we could only see You clearly as they do, with what reverence would we approach this Sacrament, with what humility would we receive You.

  Angela of Foligno

  God, Humility, Power

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• there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds

  Charles Bukowski

  Clouds, Streets, Policemen

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• When angels fly inside your heart, that's when you can fly.

  Gary Busey

  Heart

  Twitter post from Apr 10, 2012

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• Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wall, Iron, Bars

  "To Althea, from Prison" l. 25 (1649)

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• Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Soul, Use

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Francis de Sales, Pt. 2, ch. 16, 1609.

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• Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

  Voltaire

  Passion, Play, Trying

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• If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Love, Inspirational, Mind

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.161

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• O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

  John Milton

  Faith, Wings, White

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton..Illustrated with Engravings from Drawings by J.M.W. Turner”, p.550

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• Love travels the miles upon the wings of Angels.

  Kathy Mattea

  Wings, Miles

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• People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

  Andre Maurois

  Teaching, Men, Average

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• I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

  Harry Dean Stanton

  Good Night, Sweet, May

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• My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty... and the heart... Well, you know... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. Like this.

  Joss Whedon

  Loyalty, Heart, Mean

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". www.imdb.com. 1997–2003.

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• Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

  Alexander Pope

  Ambition, Firsts, Faults

  'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady' (1717) l. 13

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• Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

  John Donne

  Love, Flames, Names

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'Air and Angels'

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• Angels and ministers of grace defend us.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Denmark In Hamlet, Ministers

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 39

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