Angel Quotes - Page 14

• You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Has Beens

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Phineas Redux”, p.100, Booklassic

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• Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?

  Leslie Stephen

  Men, Laughing, Ignorant

  Sir Leslie Stephen (1903). “An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays”

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• To Him let us but cleave in all ouv strife; and the Tempte1 will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more; angels will come and minister unto us; and when we pass from them to the ministry of life, be it to the glory of a transfiguration, the sorrows of a Gethsemane, or the sacrifice of the cross, the tran- quilizing peace of God will never be far from us.

  James Martineau

  Sacrifice, Sorrow, Ministry

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• It having been said above that God bends all the reprobate, and even Satan himself, at his will, three objections are started. First, that this happens by the permission, not by the will of God. To this objection there is a twofold reply, the one, that angels and men, good and bad, do nothing but what is appointed by God; the second, that all movements are secretly directed to their end by the hidden inspiration of God.

  John Calvin

  Inspiration, Men, Three

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.102, Lulu.com

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• Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first principles, or, at least, does not comprehend all those things which are necessary to be known; and that therefore progress is to be made to the very end of life: for this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end.

  John Calvin

  Progress, Firsts, Principles

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Zechariah And Malachi (Annotated Edition)”, p.114, Jazzybee Verlag

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• By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us.

  Thomas Traherne

  Christian, Roots, Water

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.161, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If the angels are unkind or the season is dark Or if in the end Love just falls apart Well then here's to our destruction Baby let me be your soul driver.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Baby, Fall, Dark

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• When will the church do her appointed work? She is represented as an angel of light, flying through heaven with the everlasting gospel to be proclaimed to the world. This represents the speed and directness with which the church is to prosecute her work.

  Ellen G. White

  Light, Heaven, Flying

  Ellen G. White (1963). “Medical Ministry”, p.131, Pacific Press Publishing

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• Every object in nature is impressed with God's footsteps, and every day repeats the wonders of creation. There is not an object, be it pebble or pearl, weed or rose, the flower-spangled sward beneath, or the star-spangled sky above, not a worm or an angel, a drop of water or a boundless ocean, in which intelligence may not discern, and piety adore, the providence of Him who took our nature that He might save our souls.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Weed, Nature, Stars

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 427, 1895.

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• Worship is the earthly act by which we most distinctly recognize our personal immortality; men who think that they will be extinct a few years hence do not pray. In worship we spread out our insignificant life, which yet is the work of the Creator's hands, and the purchase of the Redeemer's blood, before the Eternal and All-Merciful, that we may learn the manners of a higher sphere, and fit ourselves for companionship with saints and angels, and for the everlasting sight of the face of God.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Prayer, Men, Thinking

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 457. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement.

  Joseph Priestley

  Spain, Essentials, Saint

  Joseph Priestley (1793). “An History of the Corruptions of Christianity”, p.469

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• Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look.

  Mary Martin

  Mother, Daddy, Looks

  mary martin (1976). “my heart belongs”

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• Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Zidane, Serial Killer, Saint

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• In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety and liberty. It's our lives and liberties that are threatened, not only by terrorism but also by massive depredations of our privacy in the name of counter-terrorism. If those companies from which governments actually take most of our intimate details want to show that they are still on the side of the angels, they had better join this struggle for transparency too.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Struggle, Names, Government

  "If Big Brother came back, he'd be a public-private partnership". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving; Unless you can die when the dream is past — Oh, never call it loving!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dream, Past, Heaven

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1992). “Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is language - Logos; I gnaw on this marrowbone and will gnaw myself to death over it. It is still always dark over these depths for me: I am still always awaiting an apocalyptic angel with a key to this abyss.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Dark, Keys, Depth

  "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 5, p. 177, 1955 - 1975.

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• Even among the angels, there is the sadness of division.

  Nicole Krauss

  Sadness, Division

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.185, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.

  Willie Nelson

  Running, Night, Nashville

  "The Facts of Life: And Other Dirty Jokes". Book by Willie Nelson and Larry McMurtry, 2003.

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• Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Wings, Born

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• It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Kind, Ass, Said

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.204, Macmillan

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• I jumped in the river, what did I see?
  Black-eyed angels swam with me
  A moon full of stars and astral cars
  And all the figures I used to see
  All my lovers were there with me
  All my past and futures
  And we all went to heaven in a little row boat
  There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.

  Thom Yorke

  Stars, Past, Rivers

  "Song: 'Pyramid Song'". 2001.

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• There are stars, stars, scattered stars, blackness all between. They ripple and fold and bend, and they rush toward him, rush by him. Their colors are blazing and pure as angels' eyes.

  Roger Zelazny

  Stars, Eye, Color

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• Allah, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Son, Animal, Men

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 60,

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• I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel.

  Nelson Rodrigues

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• If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Song, Believe, Long

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.

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