ANGEL QUOTES II

quotations about angels

Angel quote

Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

Arcana Coelestia

Tags: Emanuel Swedenborg


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


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


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

Tags: John Banville


Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.

NATHANIEL COTTON

To-morrow


When you get your spiritual vision focused, you'll know through faith that the angels are moving up and down your ladder carrying out their ministry to you on God's behalf.

TONY EVANS

The Truth About Angels


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


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

Tags: Deepak Chopra


When angels visit earth, the messengers
Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind:
Before the throne, they all are living fire.

EMMA LAZARUS

"The Birth of Man: A Legend of the Talmud"

Tags: Emma Lazarus


An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision, and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.

THOMAS AQUINAS

attributed, Angels: A Joyous Celebration

Tags: Thomas Aquinas, truth


One glimpse of full reality would sweep us away, and angels are ambassadors of full reality.

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


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


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


I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils sporting horns and carrying pitchforks. To me, angel wings are merely symbolic of their role as divine messengers.

RICHARD PAUL EVANS

The Christmas Box

Tags: Richard Paul Evans, devil


In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Man and Superman

Tags: George Bernard Shaw, Heaven


Six wings he wore, to shade his lineaments divine; the pair that clad each shoulder broad, came mantling o'er his breast with regal ornament; the middle pair girt like a starry zone his waist, and round skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold, and colours dipp'd in heaven; the third his feet shadow'd from either heel with feather'd mail, sky-tinctur'd grain.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

Tags: John Milton


Even among the angels, there is the sadness of division.

NICOLE KRAUSS

The History of Love


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

Tags: Brigham Young


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


The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Goodness and Goodness in Nature", Essays

Tags: desire, power