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Quotes About Angel

The angel ended, and in Adam's earSo charming left his voice that he awhileThought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
~ John Milton
California, preaching on the burning shore California, I'll be knocking on the golden door Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light Rising up to paradise, I know I'm going to shine
~ John Perry Barlow
Against a wall a faded blonde woman—an exiled angel, the hints of beauty still lingering on her palewhite face—sits with blackoutlined eyes burning into the bar.
~ John Rechy
Impassivity was quite natural to her concern for perfect form: she could never have displayed an untidy face like mine. It was partly because of this strange tense serenity that a friend of ours used to call her the "Fallen Angel". Her subtle body, her pensive face lighted by the pale brow, put forth a charm that acted powerfully on those who are attracted by the tragic greatness of androgyny. She spoke, determined to allay my fears: "Kini: I must go away.
~ Ella Maillart
And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:9, 10.
~ Ellen G. White
I had waited an eternity for this moment. My childhood fantasy was now coming true— I would be a dark angel of the night.
~ Ellen Schreiber
I'm a butterfingers, and I always have been.' 'An angel's foot got in your way,' Codswallop said. 'That's what my mother used to tell us when we returned to the house with scrapes on our knees.
~ Eloisa James
An angel can long subsist on its own substance.
~ ELSA BARKER
So anyone who has the quality of goodness from the Lord is an angel-person.g
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing this time, gay and sad at once, like a stranded angel who had traded holiness for humanity but remembered what it used to be like to know God.
~ Barbara Hambly
Everybody thinks my sister is an angel straight down from heaven, but I know better.
~ Barbara O'Connor
I happened to look at Imogene and I almost dropped by hymn book on a baby angel. Everyone had been waiting all this time for the Herdmans to do something absolutely unexpected. And sure enough, that was what happened. Imogene Herdman was crying. In the candlelight her face was all shiny with tears and she didn't even bother to wipe them away. She just sat there-awful old Imogene-in her crookedy veil, crying and crying and crying. Well. It was the best Christmas pageant we ever had.
~ Barbara Robinson
My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
~ Daniel Cormier
I accept the fact that angels are great heavenly beings, and I think some people give me the feeling that I'm with an angel.
~ Benjamin Clementine
The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.
~ George MacDonald
Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.
~ George MacDonald
There is hardly a limit to the knowledge and sympathy a man may have in respect of the finest things, and yet be a fool. Sympathy is not harmony. A man may be a poet even, and speak with the tongue of an angel, and yet be a very bad fool.
~ George MacDonald
The little boy was just as much one of God's messengers as if he had been an angel with a flaming sword, going out to fight the devil. The devil he had to fight just then was Misery.
~ George MacDonald
Lord Denville, I regard her ladyship as an angel!' said Mr Horning reverently. 'Oh, no, no, you take too melancholy a view of her case!' Kit assured him. 'We trust she may– with care– enjoy several more years of life, and tolerably good health!' With these optimistic words he smiled sweetly at the stunned poet, and passed into the house.
~ Georgette Heyer
Evelyn says that they are all of them truly good and saintly! Indeed, he described Patience to me as an angel! Well, dearest, I wouldn't for a moment deny that that is – is most admirable, but I find saintly persons excessively uncomfortable, and I cannot live with an angel!
~ Georgette Heyer
I've been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left.
~ Marc Wallice
God always sends an angelto soften the sting of the devil.
~ Sarah Strohmeyer
When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel.
~ Saul Williams