Angel Quotes - Page 2

• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Music, Jazz And Life

  Thomas Carlyle (1888). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)”

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• Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence.
  They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.

  Mortimer Adler

  Inspiring, Form, Cosmic

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1993). “Angels and Us”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

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• Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Men, Honor, Remember

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• All God's angels come to us disguised.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Guardian Angel, Angelic

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.202

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Imagine

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• The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

  Georg Trakl

  Forgotten, Recalls, Stillness

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• the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Men, Purpose

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• Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.

  Saint Augustine

  Jesus, Sleep, Giving

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• I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

  William Blake

  Singing, World, Pity

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.96, Wordsworth Editions

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• Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

  Billy Graham

  Courage, Godly, Thinking

  Billy Graham (2011). “Angels: Ringing Assurance that We Are Not Alone”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.

  Andrew Greeley

  Inspirational, Care

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• Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

  John Keats

  Philosophy, Wings, Literature

  'Lamia' (1820) pt. 2, l. 229

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• I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.

  Mae West

  Wings, Spread, Bits

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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  Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.

  John Calvin

  Divine, Solicitude, Beneficence

  Jean Calvin, John Allen (1844). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.155

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• We exist temporarily through what we take,
  but we live forever through what we give.

  Douglas A. Lawson

  Giving, Forever, Quid Pro Quo

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• I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Guardian, Wanted, Asks

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

  Voltaire

  Air, Void, Pleasure

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2868, Delphi Classics

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• Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can communicate without speech, in thought.

  John of Damascus

  Intelligent, Reflection, Light

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• Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Powerful, Father, Heaven

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• Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honour your patience.

  John Climacus

  Christian, Patience, Courage

  Saint John (Climacus) (1959). “The Ladder of Divine Ascent”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thinking Of You

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• When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.

  Origen

  Prayer, Watches, Praying

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  George Eliot (2016). “Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus”, p.210, 谷月社

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• I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.

  Petrarch

  Track, Heaven, World

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