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Quotes About Angels

I wear a coat of angels' breath and warm myself with His love.
~ Terri Guillemets
Good Habits are mentors, guardian angels, and servants that regulate your sleep, your work, your thought.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Many an angel, with its needle, toils beneath the snow.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1875
Of course. I'll never lie still like my father under his hideous obelisk. I'll roam free, flying above you like these angels, and I'll be with you day and night,' Morgan whispered.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
He was reminded that men may be angels, but they are animals, too. They are driven by uncontrollable forces and only the love of other people makes it possible for them to survive. Men are lonely and are stricken in the night. They lock their jaws against themselves. They scream like animals, and even though they ridicule love and the forces of destruction, they are themselves theatres for the operation of such forces.
~ James A. Michener
Only himself manacles man: concept and action are the gaolers of Fate—they imprison, being base; they're additionally the angels of Freedom—they release, being noble.
~ James Allen
Only himself manacles man: thought and action are the gaolers of Fate—they imprison, being base; they are also the angels of Freedom—they liberate, being noble.
~ James Allen
To live with angels and chase their dreams.
~ James Frey
It is not uncommon for angels to take corporeal form, to appear before us on earth as people with names and credentials.
~ Michael Paterniti
Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man
~ Idries Shah
Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
Angels come in many forms, but they always bring the same message--wisdom.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
~ Saint Ignatius
No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.
~ John Cassian
I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
~ Francis Bacon
Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.
~ Richard Hooker
If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.
~ Rumi
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
~ Alexander Pope
Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.
~ John Lydon
Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
~ Kenneth Rexroth
Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
~ Matthew Simpson
This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.
~ Origen
In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
~ Alexander Pope