Quotes About Angels

Be on the side of the angels. Be a prism. You have that something within, the higher self.

If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.

It was a crazy theory. But when Angels are involved, crazy is almost normal.

I'm a big believer in quantum physics, which says that the universe is more incredible and mysterious than any of us can imagine, which is my way of saying, 'Anything is possible, including angels.'

I always say I have so many known devils and I prefer them over unknown angels.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.

Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud; Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown, Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.

He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time:The living throne, the sapphire-blaze,Where angels tremble, while they gaze,He saw; but blasted with excess of light,Closed his eyes in endless night.

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.

Although few would own up to it, even to themselves, we love havoc in both life and art. What we call "evil" captivates us from childhood to old age, never paling in its seductive entreaties, its heady effects on our imaginations and our glands. We are gluttons for atrocity and yawn at the quiescent. The most prominent of the angels is the one who started a war in heaven.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made theeTo temper man: we had been brutes without you;Angels are painted fair, to look like you.

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!

Our sins are worser than the sins of the devils: the lapsed angels never sinned against Christ's blood. Chris died not for them.The medicine of his merit was never intended to heal them. But we have affronted and disparaged his blood by unbelief.

Glorious things are spoken of God; he transcends our thoughts, and the praises of angels. God's glory lies chiefly in his attributes, which are the several beams by which the divine nature shines forth. Among other of his orient excellencies, this is not the least, The Lord is a God of knowledge; or as the Hebrew word is, 'A God of knowledges.

Some of the fathers were of opinion that every believer has his guardian angel. This subject needs no hot debate. It may suffice us to know the whole hierarchy of angels is employed for the good of the saints.

Vemos aquí la honra y dignidad del creyente. Tiene el nombre de Dios escrito sobre sí (Ap. 3:12), al Espíritu Santo que habita en él (2 Ti. 1:14), y una guardia de ángeles que le asiste.

A believer triumphs more in the righteousness of Christ imputed, than if he had Adam's righteousness in innocency, nay, than if he had the angels' righteousness, for now he hath the righteousness of God. "That we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

God's glory is more worth than heaven, and more worth than the salvation of all men's souls. It would be better that kingdoms be thrown down, better men and angels be annihilated, than God should lose one jewel of his crown, one beam of his glory!

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children of this earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In love's service only wounded soldiers can serve.

The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living.

In a final flourish, drawing on his extensive knowledge of avian anatomy, he presents a critique of the supposed morphology of divine beings: "If angels had any reality, they would be very clumsy and awkward fliers with a slow heavy flight, lacking as they are in aerodynamic shape.

Oh, where has your love to mankind carried you? Had you sent creatures to serve us, prophets to advise us, angels to minister to us; had you come to visit us, to weep for us, that would have been a great mercy. But you came yourself, and you came to lay down your lifeblood, all for your people. That you should be cursed, that we might be blessed; forsaken, that we might not be forsaken; condemned, that we might be acquitted: