Quotes About Angels

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone.

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

Indeed, God intended, by this way of rec onciling poor sinners to himself, to make work for angels and saints to admire the mystery of his wisdom, power, and love therein, to everlasting.

maybe even in the fires of Hell there might be an angel walking around with a bucket of cool water and a dipper.

I Corinthians 13 ('Gin I speak wi the tungs o men an angels, but hae nae luve i my hairt . . .')

THERE IS JOY IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ANGELS OF GOD OVER ONE SINNER WHO REPENTS." LUKE 15:10 NASB

Both [Satan and Melkor/Morgoth] are loud in their defiance, claiming that they would "rather rule in hell than serve in heaven". One might have admired these rebel angels if one believed their defiance was in the name of liberty- however, both lied. Their rebellions were only provoked by envy and the usurpers' wishes to take the perceived tyrants' place. Never were two more natural tyrants than Morgoth and Satan.

Revisiting what we will call the 'indigenous critique' means taking seriously contributions to social thought that come from outside the European canon, and in particular from those indigenous peoples whom Western philosophers tend to cast either in the role of history's angels or its devils.

Since it is so difficult in the concrete to judge what is and is not "mortal sin," and who is and is not subjectively guilty of it, we should choose pastorally not to make that judgment except in extreme and obvious cases. Then Eucharist would be recognized again as what it really is: not just the "bread of angels," but on this earth the strengthening food and sacrament of sinners.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.

Your tears were collected by the angels and were placed in a golden chalice, and you will find them when you present yourself before God.

Artists live with God – but give their little finger to Satan. I sleep with the angels and dream of the devil.

The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.

Exhale . . . and give all worries to God and the angels.

In a sense, we are better prepared to praise God than the angels are, for angels have never known the joy of redemption.

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

Since God often sends us inspirations by means of His angels, we should frequently return our aspirations to him by means of the same messengers.