My Angel Quotes

• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Family, Mothers Day, Thank You

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

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• Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I have for myself.

  Jamie Oliver

  Faith, God Has A Plan, Bigger

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• That's all an angel is....an idea of God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Angel, Ideas, Angelic

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Teacher, Children, Angel

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• It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

  Voltaire

  Angel, Air, Void

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2868, Delphi Classics

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• Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

  Fanny Crosby

  Death, Angel, Grieving

  Fanny Crosby (2008). “Fanny J. Crosby: An Autobiography”, p.36, Hendrickson Publishers

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• The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Angel, Ideas, Giving

  "The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church". Multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999.

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• A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Happiness, Smile, Mom

  "Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Volume II,

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• Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Angel, Moon Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Evangeline and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Character, Angel, Men

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• Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Angel, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.437, Рипол Классик

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• Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspiring, Angel, Names

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• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

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• We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

  Anton Chekhov

  Peace, Inspiration, Losing A Loved One

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (1998). “Five Plays”, p.167, Oxford University Press, USA

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• O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

  John Milton

  Faith, Angel, Wings

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton..Illustrated with Engravings from Drawings by J.M.W. Turner”, p.550

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• Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.

  Richard Wilbur

  Inspirational, Morning, Angel

  1956 Things of This World, 'Love Calls Us to the Things of This World'.

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• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Family, Mothers Day

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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  Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

  Alexander Pope

  Wisdom, Fear, Angel

  An Essay on Criticism l. 625 (1711)

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• If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only

  Louis Sachar

  Baby, Strong, Angel

  Louis Sachar (2010). “Holes”, p.184, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

  Stephen Fry

  Beauty, Depression, Laughter

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.93, Random House

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  I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Art, Creativity

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• Heaven with my angel. It doesn't get any better than this.

  Sylvia Day

  Angel, Heaven, Married With Children

  Sylvia Day (2014). “Sylvia Day Crossfire Novels 1-4”, p.409, Penguin

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• As a self-respecting dude, I'd never believed in fairy tales, but in that moment, I did. I'd found my angel to live happily-ever-after with.

  Katie Ashley

  Angel, Self, Fairy Tale

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• You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

  Isabel Allende

  Love, Angel, Damnation

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• Even though my angel has forgiven me and rescued me, who on earth will save him, who cannot be allowed into the light of the sun, who has lost his name, who can only hide himself in the world of darkness?

  Mizuki Nomura

  Angel, Light, Names

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