ANGEL QUOTES V

quotations about angels

Angel quote

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.

ANTONIN ARTAUD

Lettres a Genica Athanasiou

Tags: Antonin Artaud, Hell


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 very names assigned to angels by their Creator, convey to us ideas pre-eminently pleasing, fitted to captivate the heart, and exalt the imagination; ideas which dispel gloom, banish despondency, enliven hope, and awaken sincere and unmingled joy.

TIMOTHY DWIGHT

Theology Explained and Defended


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


In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Man and Superman

Tags: George Bernard Shaw, Heaven


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


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


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


Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

D.H. LAWRENCE

letter to Rolf Gardiner, Dec. 18, 1927

Tags: D. H. Lawrence


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

GREGORY THE GREAT

Homilies


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


I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre.

GEORGE BERKELEY

The Works of George Berkeley

Tags: George Berkeley


The greatest thing we can learn from the holy angels is their instant, unquestioning obedience to God's command.

PETER NWARU

"Existence of Angels: What Christians believe", National Mirror, February 28, 2016


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


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


Yes, angels are real, just as real as you and I are. Although they are largely unseen by us, they exist in great numbers.

BILLY GRAHAM

"Billy Graham says angels are real and appear as ordinary humans on occasion", Christian Today, January 29, 2016


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


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


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


Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

JEANNETTE WALLS

Half Broke Horses

Tags: Jeannette Walls, perfection