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• It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

  James Hillman

  Letting Go, Firsts, Impossible

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• Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

  Doris Lessing

  Love, Trust, No Friends

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  Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

  Alexander Pope

  Wisdom, Fear, Fools Day

  An Essay on Criticism l. 625 (1711)

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• When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Long, People, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four years, who at play has got its hair tossed and its clothes soiled. These misfortunes have befallen me in battling with souls. But very soon the Blessed Virgin hastens to my aid: quickly, she takes off my dirty little pinafore, smoothes my hair and adorns it with a pretty ribbon or simply with a little flower... and this suffices to render me pleasing and enables me to sit at the Banquet of Angels without blushing.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Children, Dirty, Flower

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.73, TAN Books

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• Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings.

  Frances Goodrich

  Mean, Wings, Appreciate

  "Fictional character: Clarence". "It's a Wonderful Life", www.imdb.com. 1946.

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• I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.

  Bessie Smith

  Beauty, Children

  Song: Reckless Blues

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• We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.

  Ambrose

  Praying, Guardian, Should

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• A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.

  Dave Matthews

  Music, Song, Rain

  Song: #40

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• In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Heaven, Particular

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Greatness"

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• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Family, Mothers Day, Thank You

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

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• If a man's patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are stronger than his patience, then he is like a devil. If his desire for food, drink and sex is stronger than his patience, then he is no better than an animal.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Sex, Animal, Men

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• Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspirational, Life, Creativity

  1982 A Severed Wasp.

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• Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Doors, Heaven, Action

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• Angels are endowed with the noblest created Attributes. They are endowed with wonderful Power. This perfection of Angels is forcibly indicated by the fact that the name Power, or Might, is in several places given to them in the Gospel. No stronger testimony of their high possession of this attribute can be conveyed by a single word; for it is a direct declaration that their nature is power itself.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Names, Perfection, Stronger

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• The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

  Fanny Crosby

  Children, Together, Mercy

  Fanny Crosby (1858). “A Wreath of Columbia's Flowers: 1858”, p.68

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• We must not sit down and wait for miracles. Up and be going!

  John Eliot

  Waiting, Miracle, Down And

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• A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Prayer, Believe, May

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.2610, Delphi Classics

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• While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.

  Phillips Brooks

  Sleep, Watches, Wonder

  Phillips Brooks, “O Little Town Of Bethlehem”

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• I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them

  Dian Fossey

  Uncles, Sides, Groups

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• The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings; because divine wisdom has ordained that the higher should look after the lower, angels execute the divine plan for human salvation: they are our guardians, who free us when hindered and help to bring us home.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Home, Divine Wisdom, World

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Self, Perfect, Intellectual

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1957). “On the Truth of the Catholic Faith. Summa Contra Gentiles”

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• I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.

  Courtney Love

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

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• I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Devil, Come Up

  "The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest" by Stephen Tuck, Henry Louis Gates, (p. 15), November 20, 2014.

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• The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

  George Edward Moore

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

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