ANGEL QUOTES IV

quotations about angels

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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1861

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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


If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Conversations with Tennessee Williams


Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.

J. C. HARE

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: soul, God


Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure and are awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Each single angel is terrifying.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

Duino Elegies

Tags: Rainer Maria Rilke, beauty


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

TOM WAITS

"Mr. Siegal", Heartattack and Vine

Tags: devil


Around our pillows golden ladders rise, and up and down the skies, with winged sandals shod, the angels come, and go, the Messengers of God!

R. H. STODDARD

Hymn to the Beautiful

Tags: sleep, God


When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today?

JOAN WESTER ANDERSON

In the Arms of Angels

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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


Entertaining angels unawares: It is always we who are to entertain the angels, and never they us. I cannot, however, think that an angel would be a very entertaining person, either as guest or host.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Notebooks


When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.

MEISTER ECKHART

Sermon 9, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church


They will come from the bright, sunny land, come on their pinions so fair; Jesus will send them its glory to tell, Angels will carry me there.

FANNY CROSBY

Will the Angels Come?

Tags: Fanny Crosby, Jesus


Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: What glorious pleasures take shape within you!

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

"O gloriosissimi"

Tags: God


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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

ALEXANDER POPE

An Essay on Criticism

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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their spere, and rush into the skies! Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods.

ALEXANDER POPE

An Essay on Man

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Angels appear to transcend all cultures, races, and systems. They are a part of human history and civilization, sometimes at the forefront, other times in the shadows, but they are always there. They don't belong to any one particular religion, although many modern people try to associate them with Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. No one religion holds total responsibility for the belief in angels. In truth, these religions only support the existence of angels, they didn't create them.

SILVER RAVENWOLF

Angels

Tags: Silver Ravenwolf, belief


As God enlarges your awareness of the spiritual realm, you will come to realize that these Kingdom beings are always with you in your personal journey, your family and your community. You are never alone; God has made provision for you. Anytime you feel lost, afraid, confused or desperate, you are probably focusing on your situation, not on God. As you turn to God for help, He releases His mighty angels to intervene supernaturally and come to your assistance.

JUDITH MACNUTT

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


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


If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Living Words

Tags: E. H. Chapin, madness