Angel Quotes - Page 11

• Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.

  Billy Graham

  Inspiring, Character, Play

  Billy Graham (2009). “Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!

  Edward Taylor

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  Edward Taylor, “I Am The LIVIng Bread: Meditation Eight: John 6:51”

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• Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

  Mortimer Adler

  Ideas, Understanding, Able

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1982). “The angels and us”, Scribner

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• War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  War, May, Habit

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.15, Vanderbilt University Press

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• When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

  Marge Piercy

  Eye, Brain, Piglet

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.117, Knopf

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• Angels live no place, as God lives no place. They live in the space of eternity, in the center of our hearts, and sometimes I think we each serve as the channels and angels of God, touched by wings of silence, pushed to angelic acts.

  Sophy Burnham

  Heart, Thinking, Wings

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.192, Penguin

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• An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.

  Ian MacKaye

  Mean, Doors, Devil

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• United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.

  Pope John Paul II

  Holy Eucharist, Church, Saint

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• Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

  Mother Teresa

  Travel, Memorable, Riding Your Bike

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• The stairway is not
  a thing of gleaming strands
  a radiant evanescence
  for angels' feet that only glance in their tread, and need not
  touch the stone.

  Denise Levertov

  Feet, Needs, Stones

  Denise Levertov (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• This Sacrament really contains You, O my God, You whom the Angels adore, in whose presence the Spirits and mighty Powers tremble. Oh! if we could only see You clearly as they do, with what reverence would we approach this Sacrament, with what humility would we receive You.

  Angela of Foligno

  God, Humility, Power

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• there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds

  Charles Bukowski

  Clouds, Streets, Policemen

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• When angels fly inside your heart, that's when you can fly.

  Gary Busey

  Heart

  Twitter post from Apr 10, 2012

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• Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wall, Iron, Bars

  "To Althea, from Prison" l. 25 (1649)

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• Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Soul, Use

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Francis de Sales, Pt. 2, ch. 16, 1609.

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

  John Milton

  Faith, Wings, White

  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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• Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

  Voltaire

  Passion, Play, Trying

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• If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Love, Inspirational, Mind

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.161

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• Love travels the miles upon the wings of Angels.

  Kathy Mattea

  Wings, Miles

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• People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

  Andre Maurois

  Teaching, Men, Average

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• I am the Angel of the Sun
  Whose flaming wheels began to run
  When God's almighty breath
  Said to the darkness and the Night,
  Let there be light! and there was light.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Running, Night, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.266

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• An angel; or, if not,
  An earthly paragon.

  William Shakespeare

  Paragon, Ifs

  1610 Belarius, of Innogen in disguise. Cymbeline, act 3, sc.6, l.42-3.

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• In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rocks, Anchors, Sound

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.130

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• Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.

  John Henry Newman

  Purpose, Archangel

  "John Henry Newman: Spiritual Writings".

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• God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.

  Nancy Mairs

  Letting Go, World, Willing

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