Quotes About Angels

Mist lies over the river like the icy breath of winter angels. Darkness gathers round... and it is beautiful.Thank you for this life, this death, whatever it is you arethat makes us finally see.

Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living.

My hearts desired divine twins, My guardian angels, Jeremias-Jean Joachim AkitaLia-Lachelle Lisette Akita

yes, writing is mostly a dream, but angels visit in dreams

What were we like then in that time and space, unburdened of the weight of outer sound? We were angels harboring each other in the notion of desirelessness, dazed in our acquiescence to the drift through subatomic matter. The love of minds should last beyond lives. Maybe it does, each mind a dice-toss of neutron stars, invisible except to theory, pulling at cold space to find its lover.

It is a curiosity of writing about angels that, very often, one turns out to be writing about men.

Elder Russell M. Nelson: "Remember, God's holy angels are ever on call to help us. When we are faithful, God and His angels will help us."14

Angels' assignments may be "very grand and have significance for the whole world," but more often, their assignments are private and personal

Acknowledge that people bound by the chains of true addictions often need more help than self-help, and that may include you. Seek that help and welcome it. Talk to your bishop. Follow his counsel. Ask for a priesthood blessing. Use the Church's Family Services offerings or seek other suitable professional help. Pray without ceasing. Ask for angels to help you. . . .

If you are bound by a habit or an addiction that is unworthy, you must stop conduct that is harmful. Angels will coach you, and priesthood leaders will guide you through those difficult times."13

Gods have an ascendency over the angels, who are ministering servants. In the resurrection, some are raised to be angels, others are raised to become Gods."4

In sum, the "eternal, everlasting and holy priesthood" and its influence will provide "protection and salvation" from God's destroying angels to many of the earth's inhabitants in the last days.

And Elder Parley P. Pratt wrote that "Gods, angels and men are all of one species, one race, one great family, widely diffused among the planetary systems, as colonies, kingdoms, nations, &c."2

An angel may be a resurrected being (D&C 129:1); a translated being; an unembodied spirit, one who has not yet taken a physical body; a disembodied spirit, one who has lived and died and now awaits the resurrection; a mortal who is attentive to the Spirit of God and follows divine direction to assist or bless another; or the Lord himself."9

The net of the gospel may perhaps be spread far more widely than it has ever been before, but in the last day, the angels will find an abundance of bad fish in it as well as good. There may be millions more people working for the gospel, and I pray that might be, but however faithfully they may sow, a large proportion of tares will be found growing together with the wheat at the time of harvest.

Sometimes God's angel can be a big, burly man with tattooed arms. ~Mary Potter Kenyon

Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you. -Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels' Little Instruction Book

When the Angels arrive, the devils leave. -Egyptian Proverb

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces. -F. Forrester Church

All God's angels come to us disguised. -James Russell Lowell

Hark! the music of the angels Floating onward still we hear; Blessed music, sweetest chorus Ever sung to mortal ear. -Fanny Crosby, "Music of the 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! -Richard Henry Stoddard