ANGEL QUOTES II

quotations about angels

Angel quote

It's like we have the bones of animals and the hearts of angels.

BAXTER CLARE TRAUTMAN

The River Within


When I was a child and heard about angels, I was both frightened and fascinated by the thought of these enormous, invisible presences in our midst. I conceived of them not as white-robed androgynes with yellow locks and thick gold wings, which was how my friend Matty Wilson had described them to me--Matty was the predecessor of all sorts of arcane knowledge--but as big, dark, blundering men, massive in their weightlessness, given to pranks and ponderous play, who might knock you over, or break you in half, without meaning to. When a child from Miss Molyneaux's infant school in Carrickdrum fell under the hoofs of a dray-horse one day and was trampled to death, I, a watchful six year old, knew who was to blame; I pictured his guardian angel standing over the child's crushed form with his big hands helplessly extended, not sure whether to be contrite or to laugh.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Untouchable

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Angels are manifestations, unquestionably real to those who encounter them, of a world larger, better, and infinitely more beautiful, intelligent, and anchored in the reality of God than ours is. The existence of angels drives home the fact that we are not lost and alone in this modern flatland of materialism, but come from, and will return to, another, better place.

PTOLEMY TOMPKINS & TYLER BEDDOES

Proof of Angels: The Definitive Book on the Reality of Angels and the Surprising Role They Play in Each of Our Lives


We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?

JOHN PAGE

letter to Thomas Jefferson about the American Revolutionary War, Jul. 20, 1776

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For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.

BRIAN L. WEISS

Miracles Happen: The Transformational Healing Power of Past-Life Memories


For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

Tags: John Milton, God


The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.

NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

The Last Temptation of Christ

Tags: devil


There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

GREGORY THE GREAT

Homilies


We are not alone in our struggles. We have help from beyond. Sometimes such help is wondrously manifested in encounters we cannot rationally explain. Sometimes such help is mysteriously conveyed through the hands and hearts of those we meet in the flesh. A corollary underpinning is like unto the first: Whether we recognize it or not, God wills good for all human beings. The key, of course, is whether we welcome the help and the holy intention.

DUKE TUFTY

"Voices of Faith: Does everyone have a guardian angel, even bad people?", Kansas City Star, March 4, 2016


I believe angels are among us, bringing comfort, strength, healing, freedom and, most importantly of all, providing a stepping stone to the larger reality that is God's Kingdom--to the very heart of God.

JUDITH MACNUTT

introduction, Encountering Angels: True Stories of How They Touch Our Lives Every Day


All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Journal of Discourses

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We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing


Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you.

EILEEN ELIAS FREEMAN

The Angels' Little Instruction Book: Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers


How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on?

TOM WAITS

"Mr. Siegal", Heartattack and Vine

Tags: devil


Angels and Demons can't cross over into our plane. So, instead we get what I call half-breeds. The influence peddlers. They can only whisper in our ears. A single word can give you courage, or turn your favorite pleasure into your worst nightmare. Those with the demon's touch and those part angel, living alongside us. They call it the balance.

KEVIN BRODBIN, MARK BOMBACK & FRANK CAPELLO

Constantine


This is the state of all creatures, whether men or angels; as they make not themselves, so they enjoy nothing from themselves; if they are great, it must be only as great receivers of the gifts of God; their power can only be so much of the divine power acting in them; their wisdom can be only so much of the divine wisdom shining within them; and their light and glory, only so much of the light and glory of God shining upon them.

WILLIAM LAW

A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

Tags: God


The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Intellect", Essays

Tags: Ralph Waldo Emerson, language


Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.

JAMES MONTGOMERY

"Songs of Praise the Angels Sang"

Tags: praise, God


When the Angels arrive, the devils leave.

EGYPTIAN PROVERB

Tags: devil


Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

ANATOLE FRANCE

The Revolt of the Angels

Tags: sin, Heaven