Angel Quotes - Page 20

• Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Wings, Sometimes, Heavy

  Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• Heathenism had proved unequal to the wants of men; and it was when the most thoughtful among the Pagans were turned away from its hollow mockeries and misleading altars that the anthem of the angels broke clear and loud above the slopes of Bethlehem: "Glory to God in the highest! Peace on earth and good will toward men!

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Christmas, Thoughtful, Men

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• In all of our days our lives are always changing, tears come along as well as smiles... May you have rainbows after every storm, may you have hopes to keep you warm. And may you always have an angel by your side.

  Douglas Pagels

  Life, Change, Smile

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• The very names assigned to angels by their Creator, convey to us ideas pre-eminently pleasing, fitted to captivate the heart, and exalt the imagination; ideas which dispel gloom, banish despondency, enliven hope, and awaken sincere and unmingled joy.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Heart, Names, Ideas

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• The heart itself is only a small vessel,
  yet dragons are there, and lions,
  there are poisonous beasts,
  and all the treasures of evil,
  there are rough and uneven roads,
  there are precipes;
  but there too is God and the angels,
  life is there, and the Kingdom,
  there too is light, and there the apostles
  and heavenly cities,
  and treasures of grace.
  All things lie within that little space.

  Macarius of Egypt

  Lying, Heart, Light

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• no one who has seen an angel ever mistakes it for a ghost. Angels are remarkable for their warmth and light, and all who see them speak in awe of their irridescent and refulgent light, of brilliant colors, or else of the unbearable whiteness of their being. You are flooded with laughter, happiness.

  Sophy Burnham

  Laughter, Mistake, Light

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.35, Penguin

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• Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?

  Enoch Fitch Burr

  Death, Men, Heaven

  Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.305

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• Cats are angels with fur.

  Sark

  Peace, Cat, Fur

  Allen Klein, Sark (2012). “The Art of Living Joyfully”, p.131, Cleis Press

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• There will be no Christian but what will have a Gethsemane, but every praying Christian will find that there is no Gethsemane without its angel!

  Thomas Binney

  Christian, Affliction, Praying

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• It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in clouds and rainbows, and as people too. Are they walking on this earth as people in disguise? Or do they appear for that one moment and vanish into ether again? Or is it really us, mere humans, who for a moment are picked up by the hand of God and made to speak unwittingly the words another needs to hear, or to hold out a life line to another soul?

  Sophy Burnham

  Dream, Animal, Clouds

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.44, Penguin

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• God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

  Karl Barth

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• Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

  Karl Barth

  Play, Praise, Praise God

  1968 Quoted in the New York Times.

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• Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Nurse, Gossip

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• We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gossip, Disgusted, Importance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.403

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• An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Important, Importance

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• I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Dust, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures”, p.17

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• Women are angels, wooing:
  Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
  That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this--
  Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Men, Joy

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

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• My first paying job was guest starring in 'Touched By An Angel' when I was 12. It was very exciting. I couldn't believe you got free food all day and people were so nice to you.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Jobs, Nice, Believe

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• Asking An Angel To Blow Kisses You Way, Hoping To Lighten & Brighten Your Day.

  Tom Baker

  Kissing, Blow, Asking

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• Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his "angel"--with whom he must be reunited if he is to rise above his fragmentary identity as a worldling and become whole, as he is (and always has been) in the mind of God.

  Charles le Gai Eaton

  Destiny, Men, Self

  Gai Eaton (1985). “Islam and the Destiny of Man”, p.60, SUNY Press

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• Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,--a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world.

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  World, France, Indifference

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• We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them... Our purpose as a nation is firm, yet our wounds as a people are recent and unhealed and lead us to pray... This world he created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn... Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth can separate us from God's love.

  George W. Bush

  Grief, Humor, People

  Remarks at the National Day of Prayer & Remembrance Service, delivered 14 September 2001, Episcopal National Cathedral

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• So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Eye, Humor

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• The Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear God.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Religious, Bears, Mary

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• Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

  Dick Cavett

  Fun, Pitfalls, Pieces

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.39, Henry Holt and Company

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