Quotes About Angels

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!

The opposite of faith is not doubt; the opposite of faith is control. You must leave the Garden, where there are angels with flaming swords to keep you from ever really returning. You must leave the womb to be born.

If the stars twinkled more than usual on any given night, it meant that the angels in heaven were happy and were flitting across the doors of heaven; and since stars were merely holes ventilating heaven, the twinkling came from the angels flitting past the holes that admitted air into the holy home of God.

He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.

The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.

Archangel or hound from hell . . . with Gabriel, it depends on the day.

The Fates teleported me to the ascended angels staff lounge. It wasn't called that, naturally. We weren't staff. This wasn't a job. It was a calling. An honor. A noble mission. Bullshit.

His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.

Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.

If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the angels to your side. Simply think, 'Angels, please surround me,' and they are there.

The angels can be thought of as our prayer partners.

In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.'

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition:By that sin fell the angels.

Women are angels, wooing:Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

But man, proud man,Drest in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,His glassy essence, like an angry ape,Plays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs make the angels weep.

Go with me, like good angels, to my end;And, as the long divorce of steel falls on me,Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice,And lift my soul to heaven.

Angels and ministers of grace defend us!

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

Angels and ministers of grace defend us.Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,That I will speak to thee.