ANGEL QUOTES IV

quotations about angels

Angel quote

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


Angels shine from without because their spirits are lit from within by the light of God.

EILEEN ELIAS FREEMAN

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

Tags: God


Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.

VIRGIL

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


But now that we may lift up our eyes (as it were) from the footstool to the throne of God, and leaving these natural, consider a little the state of heavenly and divine creatures: touching Angels, which are spirits immaterial and intellectual, the glorious inhabitants of those sacred palaces, where nothing but light and blessed immortality, no shadow of matter for tears, discontentments, griefs, and uncomfortable passions to work upon, but all joy, tranquility, and peace, even for ever and ever doth dwell: as in number and order they are huge, mighty, and royal armies, so likewise in perfection of obedience unto the law, which the Highest, whom they adore, love, and imitate, hath imposed upon them, such observants they are thereof, that our Saviour himself being to set down the perfect idea of that which we are to pray and wish for on earth, did not teach to pray or wish for more than only that here it might be with us, as with them it is in heaven.

RICHARD HOOKER

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity


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

TOM WAITS

"Mr. Siegal", Heartattack and Vine

Tags: devil


Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creation are in your very cells; you are made of the same mindstuff as the angels, the stars, and god himself.

DEEPAK CHOPRA

The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

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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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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


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

NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

The Last Temptation of Christ

Tags: devil


What is all this shit about angels? Have you heard this? Three out of four people now, believe in angels. What're you, fucking stupid? Has everybody lost their f***ing minds in this country? Angels, shit. You know what I think it is? I think it's a massive collective psychotic chemical flashback of all the drugs -- all the drugs -- smoked, swallowed, snorted, shot, and absorbed rectally by all Americans from 1960 to 1990. Thirty years of adulterated street drugs'll get you some f***ing angels, my friend.

GEORGE CARLIN

"Angels", You Are All Diseased

Tags: George Carlin, drugs


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 death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.

DONALD BARTHELME

"On Angels"

Tags: death, God


Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.

ALEXANDER POPE

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

Tags: Alexander Pope, ambition


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


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

Tags: Alexander Pope, pride


Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

MILAN KUNDERA

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Tags: Milan Kundera, evil


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


Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth

Tags: William Shakespeare, devil


The angels must often be astonished at us and think we are the strangest creatures that well can be, yet they love us, and therefore they take a great interest in that Gospel that promotes our highest good.

CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Spurgeon's Sermons on Angels

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