Angel Quotes - Page 31

• The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Book, Years, Voice

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.52, Penguin

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• Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.

  Oswald Chambers

  I Can

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Place of Help: A Book of Devotional Readings”, p.84, Discovery House

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• If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Two, Envy, Suffering

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• Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

  Thomas Nashe

  Flower, Phrases, Honey

  1592 Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil, 'An Invective Against Enemies of Poetr y'.

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• When the Reformation became established, one of the things that was a question between Catholicism and the Reformation traditions was whether there was a hierarchy of being. If you look at Thomas Aquinas, for example, you have hierarchies of angels and all the rest of it, and hierarchies even of saints and then subsaints - people who aren't quite there, that sort of thing. The Reformation rejected all of that and created a new metaphysics, in effect, that is not hierarchical.

  Marilynne Robinson

  People, Example, Saint

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like Angels In America or in Wit with Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols. So, yes, I do find that very interesting and I'm sure that down the road there will be plays that I'll want to do that way.

  Colin Callender

  Play, Numbers, America

  Source: deadline.com

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• Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Husband, Men, Self

  "Love Among the Artists". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1900.

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• I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off.

  Cher

  Kids, Heaven, Pissed Off

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• I have sent you nothing but angels

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Neale Donald Walsch (2011). “When God Steps In, Miracles Happen”, p.67, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Perhaps they needn't even believe - it was enough that they needed angels, and the angels would return gladly.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Return, Enough

  "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1994.

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• The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist - perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time. Or, who knows, perhaps they thought they lived in a world where there was no longer any place for angels.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Parent, Secret

  "The Valkyries". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1992.

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• How like an angel came I down!

  Thomas Traherne

  Thomas Traherne (1968). “Christian Ethicks”

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• The moon doesn't have enough gravity to keep an atmosphere around it and some men doesn't have enough honour to keep God's angels around them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moon, Men, Atmosphere

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• The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Secret, Alive, Marble

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• When you walk alone, when everybody is against you, if you are sure with your ideas, walk strongly and proudly as if there is an army of angels by your side!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Army, Your Side, Ideas

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• [The Angels are] a team that gives you an opportunity always to be in the playoffs. This time, my first time with them, I was very close to getting to the World Series, so why not stay?

  Bobby Abreu

  Team, Opportunity, Giving

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• Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Forgiving, Thieves

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.92, Library of Alexandria

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• I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels. We know their names. They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all. A healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin, and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident, common sense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all...

  Tom Hanks

  Healing, Eye, Simple

  Tom Hanks' Academy Award Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 21, 1994.

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• In the end, there's still the Word, everywhere... In Heaven and it's Angels, the Earth and Stars, even in the darkest part of the Human Soul It was there where it burned brightest. And for a moment, I was blinded.

  Christopher Walken

  Stars, Heaven, Soul

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• If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

  James Madison

  Men, Would Be, Needs

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• I confess, right at the start, to the doubts - and sometimes outright dreads - that go with me as I climb the stairs to my study in the morning, coffee mug in hand: I have to admit to the habitual apprehension mixed with a sort of reverence, as I light the incense . . . and wonder: what is going to happen today? Will anything happen? Will the angel come today?

  Gail Godwin

  Morning, Coffee, Hands

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• I am not going to advocate ... the abandoning of the improved modes of travel; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who goes afoot, while all the dark spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride.

  John Burroughs

  Dark, Men, Shining

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.34

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• As long as an angel is not annihilated, it is a devil.

  Rumi

  Long, Devil

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• Whoever can weep over himself for one hour is greater than the one who is able to teach the whole world; whoever recognizes the depth of his own frailty is greater than the one who sees visions of angels.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Vision, Depth, World

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• There's a tale in the Caballa that suggests that the Angel of Death is so beautiful that upon seeing it (or him, or her) you fall in love so hard, so fast, that your soul is pulled out through your eyes. I like that story.

  Neil Gaiman

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Eye

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