ANGEL QUOTES III

quotations about angels

Angel quote

If angels rarely appear, it's because we all too often mistake the medium for the Message.

EILEEN ELIAS FREEMAN

The Angels' Little Instruction Book: Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers


Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

G. K. CHESTERTON

"The Eternal Revolution", Orthodoxy

Tags: G. K. Chesterton


If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Living Words

Tags: E. H. Chapin, madness


Angels are around us, angels beside us, angels within us.

LESLI WHITE

"Signs You've Encountered An Angel", beliefnet, February 25, 2016


As God enlarges your awareness of the spiritual realm, you will come to realize that these Kingdom beings are always with you in your personal journey, your family and your community. You are never alone; God has made provision for you. Anytime you feel lost, afraid, confused or desperate, you are probably focusing on your situation, not on God. As you turn to God for help, He releases His mighty angels to intervene supernaturally and come to your assistance.

JUDITH MACNUTT

introduction, Encountering Angels: True Stories of How They Touch Our Lives Every Day


The angels must often be astonished at us and think we are the strangest creatures that well can be, yet they love us, and therefore they take a great interest in that Gospel that promotes our highest good.

CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Spurgeon's Sermons on Angels

Tags: Charles Haddon Spurgeon


Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth

Tags: William Shakespeare, devil


When the Angels arrive, the devils leave.

EGYPTIAN PROVERB

Tags: devil


There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

GREGORY THE GREAT

Homilies


Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

MILAN KUNDERA

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Tags: Milan Kundera, evil


Lord, give Thine angels every day / Command to guard us on our way / And bid them every evening keep / Their watch around us while we sleep / So shall no wicked thing draw near / To do us harm or cause us fear / And we shall dwell, when life is past / With angels round Thy throne at last.

JOHN M. NEALE

Hymns for Children

Tags: John M. Neale


The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.

DONALD BARTHELME

"On Angels"

Tags: death, God


When I was a child and heard about angels, I was both frightened and fascinated by the thought of these enormous, invisible presences in our midst. I conceived of them not as white-robed androgynes with yellow locks and thick gold wings, which was how my friend Matty Wilson had described them to me--Matty was the predecessor of all sorts of arcane knowledge--but as big, dark, blundering men, massive in their weightlessness, given to pranks and ponderous play, who might knock you over, or break you in half, without meaning to. When a child from Miss Molyneaux's infant school in Carrickdrum fell under the hoofs of a dray-horse one day and was trampled to death, I, a watchful six year old, knew who was to blame; I pictured his guardian angel standing over the child's crushed form with his big hands helplessly extended, not sure whether to be contrite or to laugh.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Untouchable

Tags: John Banville


In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Man and Superman

Tags: George Bernard Shaw, Heaven


What is all this shit about angels? Have you heard this? Three out of four people now, believe in angels. What're you, fucking stupid? Has everybody lost their f***ing minds in this country? Angels, shit. You know what I think it is? I think it's a massive collective psychotic chemical flashback of all the drugs -- all the drugs -- smoked, swallowed, snorted, shot, and absorbed rectally by all Americans from 1960 to 1990. Thirty years of adulterated street drugs'll get you some f***ing angels, my friend.

GEORGE CARLIN

"Angels", You Are All Diseased

Tags: George Carlin, drugs


The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.

NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

The Last Temptation of Christ

Tags: devil


How great an evil, then, is pride! It overcast, in a moment, all the beautiful and eternal prospects, it eclipsed, in a moment, all the splendour, virtue, and dignity of Angels.

TIMOTHY DWIGHT

Theology Explained and Defended

Tags: pride, evil


Angels and Demons can't cross over into our plane. So, instead we get what I call half-breeds. The influence peddlers. They can only whisper in our ears. A single word can give you courage, or turn your favorite pleasure into your worst nightmare. Those with the demon's touch and those part angel, living alongside us. They call it the balance.

KEVIN BRODBIN, MARK BOMBACK & FRANK CAPELLO

Constantine


In this dim world of clouding cares, we rarely know, till 'wildered eyes see white wings lessening up the skies, the Angels with us unawares.

GERALD MASSEY

The Ballad of Babe Christabel

Tags: Gerald Massey


How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on?

TOM WAITS

"Mr. Siegal", Heartattack and Vine

Tags: devil