Angel Quotes - Page 23

• O fallen angel,
  the companion within me,
  whisper something holy
  before you pinch me
  into the grave.

  Anne Sexton

  Holy, Graves, Fallen

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Energy, Flesh, Made

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• For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Heart, Compassion, Joy

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.288

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• Christ has something in common with all creatures. With the stone he shares existence, with the plants he shares life, with the animals he shares sensation, and with the angels he shares intelligence. Thus all things are transformed in Christ since in the fullness of his nature he embraces some part of every creature.

  Bonaventure

  Animal, Stones, Common

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• They're (California Angels) like the American League All-Star team, and that's their problem, the American League All-Star team always loses.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Stars, Team, California

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• If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Experience, Devil

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.220, Graphic Arts Books

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• Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses the available candidate,--who is invariably the devil,--and what right have his constituents to be surprised, because the devil does not behave like an angel of light? What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity,--who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Light, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.718, Modern Library

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• Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1534, Delphi Classics

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• Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Art, Fate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.378, Library of America

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• I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so well trodden by the angels.

  J. L. Austin

  Fool, Wells, Feels

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• When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to the great white throne. For them Gethsemane is as paradise. God fills it with sacred presences; its solemn silence is broken by the music of tender promises, its awful darkness softened and brightened by the sunlight of Heavenly faces and the music of angel wings.

  Frederic Farrar

  Friday, Children, Lying

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• Any other town you go to there's this little devil and a little angel on your shoulder. A little good advice, a little bad advice.You go to Las Vegas, there's like a devil and a devil and they're just battling it out the whole time. It's like, "Smoke some crack!" "Get a hooker!" And then I go, "YEA! Yea, this is a good town. Smoke some crack and get a hooker! Alright!"

  Bill Burr

  Funny, Vegas, Advice

  "Premium Blend", series 2, episode 3, June 20, 1998.

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• Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Dark, Teeth

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• There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbs all these incorporeal spirits, and the perfume of all these flowers.

  Jean Paul

  Spring, Flower, Flying

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• To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, perhaps, is to have that which men can share only with the angels, and with Him who is above men and angels.

  David Dudley Field II

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

  C. A. Bartol

  Nature, Animal, Men

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• The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Money, Night, Men

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• Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Prayer, Eye, Heaven

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• He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Past, Virtue, Repentance

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• O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Women, Book

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• My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within its waters still and deep My sorrow and my pain. I thank Thee for my dreams, which loose the bond That binds my spirit to its daily load, And give it angel wings, to fly beyond Its slumber-bound abode.

  J. G. Holland

  Dream, Pain, Heart

  J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.49

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• And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

  John le Carre

  Heart, Self, Events

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• For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Son, Light, Understanding

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.470, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goodness, enthusiasm, and devotion. The angel shows itself rarely and with difficulty through the highly-organized brute.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Men, Justice

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• There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

  Margaret of Valois

  Devil, Encounters, Suits

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