Angel Quotes - Page 19

• O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep;
  Thou bearest angels to us in the night,
  Saints out of heaven with palms.
  Seen by thy light
  Sorrow is some old tale that goeth not deep;
  Love is a pouting child.

  Jean Ingelow

  Children, Sleep, Deep Love

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.244

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• Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage.

  Phoebe Cary

  Beautiful, Youth, Virtue

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• If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

  Nancy Willard

  Prayer, Fire, Borders

  Nancy Willard (2014). “Things Invisible to See: A Novel”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Just think of the possibilities, the potential. Every little boy that has just been born becomes an heir to this glorious, glorious program. When he is grown, he meets a lovely woman; they are married in the holy temple. They live all the commandments of the Lord. They keep themselves clean. And then they become sons of God, and they go forward with their great program-they go beyond the angels, beyond the angels and the gods that are waiting there. They go to their exaltation.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Son, Boys, Thinking

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• Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to it. The common operations of nature have not escaped their practice of corrupting everything.

  Thomas Paine

  Practice, Religion, Devil

  Thomas Paine (1854). “The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...”, p.208

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• Is it not an amazing thing, that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time that it is propounded to us as an article of faith solely, we are told that "the very angels have desired to pry into it in vain"?

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Redemption, Mystery

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.379

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• Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Men, Saint, Common

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• White wing'd angels meet the child
  On the vestibule of life.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Children, Wings, White

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• One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.

  Merle Shain

  Heartbreak, Running, Dog

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• And yet we check and chide
  The airy angels as they float about us,
  With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow
  The same tame slaves to custom and the world.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Children, World, Slave

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• It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to lay thy head in the lap of temptation!" Was it not easier for the hero of Judaea to avoid the touch of the fair Philistine, than to elude her power when held in her arms?

  Jane Porter

  Hero, Temptation, Suffering

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.19

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• A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world.

  Georg Hermes

  Beautiful, Perfect, Miracle

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• To those who are His all things are not only easy to be borne, but even to be gladly chosen. Their will is united to that will which moves heaven and earth, which gives laws to angels, and rules the courses of the world.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Moving, Law, Giving

  Henry Edward Manning, Aeterna Press (2016). “Henry Edward Manning Collection [2 Books]”, p.631, Aeterna Press

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• The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Heart, Heaven, Rooms

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• It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Struggle, Eye, Dark

  Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.120

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• Where there are problems, there are angels hovering about just waiting for us to ask them to help us transform our suffering into blessings. I'm not being religious, I'm telling you the truth as I have experienced it. ... And I'm not being trendy either. I was talking to angels long before they got fashionable. ... So maybe you don't believe in angels, that's all right, they don't care. They're not like Tinkerbell, you know, they don't depend on your faith to exist. A lot of people didn't believe the earth was round either, but that didn't make it any flatter.

  Nancy Pickard

  Religious, Believe, Blessing

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• I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God, angels, plants... and horseshit.

  Zero Mostel

  Nature, Plant, Wanted

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• Faith from, its essential nature implies the fallen state of man, while it recognizes the principles of the covenant of grace. It is itself the condition of that covenant. It is a grace which is alike distinguished from the love of angels and the faith of devils. It is peculiar to the returning sinner. None but a lost sinner needs it; none but a humbled sinner relishes it.

  Gardiner Spring

  Men, Grace, Devil

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 233. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Quitting, Boundaries

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• There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Sweet, Children

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• It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Home, Sorrow, Vanishing

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• You want me to sneak up on an angel and rip out its pinfeathers, so you can make a fashion statement?

  Simon R. Green

  Fashion, Rip, Want

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Agents Of Light And Darkness”, p.90, Penguin

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• I believe that authors don't have a responsibility to include "messages" in their work, but they do have a responsibility to write a world that seems true and real, never more than when expecting readers to believe in magic and angels and fairies.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Believe, Responsibility

  Exclusive Books Interview, blog.exclus1ves.co.za.

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• O most illustrious of the days of time!
  Day full of joy and benison to earth
  When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem!
  With dazzling pomp descending angels sung
  Good will and peace to men, to God due praise,
  Who on the errand of salvation sent
  Thee, Son Beloved! of plural Unity
  Essential part, made flesh that mad'st all worlds.

  Abraham Coles

  Christmas, Sweet, Son

  Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”

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• I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.

  Marietta Holley

  Son, Equality, Thinking

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