ANGEL QUOTES IV

quotations about angels

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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


Cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from ye door.

WILLIAM BLAKE

"Holy Thursday"

Tags: William Blake, pity


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


For what is it that angels do? They bring us good news. They open our eyes to moments of wonder, to lovely possibilities, to exemplary people, to the idea that God is here in our midst. They lift our hearts and give us wings.

JOAN WESTER ANDERSON

Where Angels Walk

Tags: Joan Wester Anderson


We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, "Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith." We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance.

JOAN WESTER ANDERSON

Where Angels Walk


How great an evil, then, is pride! It overcast, in a moment, all the beautiful and eternal prospects, it eclipsed, in a moment, all the splendour, virtue, and dignity of Angels.

TIMOTHY DWIGHT

Theology Explained and Defended

Tags: pride, evil


Man is his own star, and the soul that can render an honest and a perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate. Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

JOHN FLETCHER

The Honest Man's Fortune

Tags: John Fletcher, soul


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


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

Tags: Charles Haddon Spurgeon


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


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


In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Man and Superman

Tags: George Bernard Shaw, Heaven


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


Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you.... Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

ST. FRANCIS DE SALES

Introduction to the Devout Life

Tags: St. Francis de Sales


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


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


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

Tags: Abraham Lincoln


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


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


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