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• Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspiring, Names, Office

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• Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

  John Keble

  Peace, Firsts, Peace And Tranquility

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• The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!" ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying "Evolve! Evolve!"

  Steven Pressfield

  Inspirational, Believe, Light

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• They say, he must had an angel, cuss look how death missed his ass. Unbreakable, what you thought they'd call me Mr. Glass?

  Kanye West

  Song, Glasses, Looks

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• Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

  Dante Alighieri

  Butterfly, Judgment, Born

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.522, Dante Alighieri

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• "Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings, man, animals, and vegetables.

  Stuart Briscoe

  Animal, Men, Order

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• To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”

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• Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Love, Sweet, Coffee

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• No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.

  John Cassian

  Men, Way, Virtue

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• Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud

  Sapphire

  Blades, Grass, Grows

  Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

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• What comes from the heart goes to the heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Attitude, Heart, Eulogy

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “Seven lectures on Shakespeare and Milton”, p.45

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• Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.

  John Muir

  Sheep, People, Storm

  John Muir (2001). “Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple”

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• This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Wise, Philosophy, Simple

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• So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

  John Donne

  Flames, Voice, Thrice

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'Air and Angels'

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• At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:
  We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?
  We have gone to Heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,
  And now we will go back there, for there is our country.

  Rumi

  Love, Country, Sky

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there.

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Believe, Hands, Sorrow

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• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Death, Spiritual

  Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

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• "Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you." "I know the feeling."

  Joss Whedon

  Feelings, Looks, Want

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". www.imdb.com. 1997–2003.

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• Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels.

  Terry Taylor

  Gratitude, Lines, Direct

  Terry Lynn Taylor (1996). “Angel Days”, Ballantine Books

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• Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Motivation, Character

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• 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Women, Thinking, Dating

  The History of Henry Esmond bk. 1, ch. 7 (1852)

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• I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel.

  Robert Breault

  Guardian, Born, Doubted

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• Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
  Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage:
  If I have freedom in my love, and in my Soul I am free,
  Angels alone, that soar above, enjoy such liberty.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wall, Iron, Soul

  'To Althea, From Prison'

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• God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Helping, Duty, Willing

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• I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Faith, Kindness, Garden

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