Angel Quotes - Page 16

• In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Stars, Moving

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Aug 02, 2016

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• For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.

  Joy Williams

  Beautiful, Song, Eye

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.123, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Memories, Men, Breathing

  Thomas De Quincey (1892). “Joan of Arc: And Other Selections from Thomas De Quincey. Joan of Arc. The English mail coach (abridged).. Levana and our ladies of sorrow. Dinner, real and reputed (abridged).. I.. II.. III.. IV.”

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• I wasn't sure what I'd done to deserve such a wonderful gift, and I wasn't sure if it was insolent, but I thanked God for fallen angels.

  Jamie McGuire

  Done, Wonderful, Fallen

  Jamie McGuire (2011). “Providence”, p.161, Jamie McGuire

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• Welcome any change that comes into any phase in your life; insist that it is going to turn out for the better - and it will. See the Angel of God in it, and the Angel of God will make all things new.

  Emmet Fox

  Phases, Welcome, Gods Will

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• If I asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell.

  Robin Williams

  Love You, Eye, Hunting

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• We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humility, Men, Thinking

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.212

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• Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Vampire, Shadow, Fairy

  "Why women find vampires hot" by Jeaniene Frost, www.cnn.com. June 30, 2010.

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• Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Poetry, Humanity, Age

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• When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

  Roger Housden

  Pleasure, Dies, Denied

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• It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness or affectionate feeling, the memory of the dead comes over it most powerfully and irresistibly. It would seem almost as though our better thoughts and sympathies were charms, in virtue of which the soul is enabled to hold some vague and mysterious intercourse with the spirits of those whom we loved in life. Alas! how often and how long may these patient angels hover around us, watching for the spell which is so soon forgotten!

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Death, Memories

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• No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Saws, Feels, Irrelevant

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Suffering, Common

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• When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Eye, Soul, Lamps

  Nathaniel Parker WILLIS (1837). “Melanie and other poems. Edited by Barry Cornwall, i.e. B. W. Procter”, p.154

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• All that hath been majestical
  In life or death, since time began,
  Is native in the simple heart of all,
  The angel heat of man.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Character, Simple

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• What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Eye, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.55

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• Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.

  Charles Lamb

  Giving, Water, Charity

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.138

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• The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Tears, Should

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.104

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• Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look.

  Mary Martin

  Mother, Daddy, Looks

  mary martin (1976). “my heart belongs”

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• Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Zidane, Serial Killer, Saint

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• A heart renewed--a loving heart--a penitent and humble heart--a heart broken and contrite, purified by love--that and only that is the rest of men. Spotlessness may do for angels, repentance unto life is the highest that belongs to man.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Heart, Humble, Men

  Frederick William Robertson (1917). “Sermons on Bible subjects”

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• I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.

  Willie Nelson

  Running, Night, Nashville

  "The Facts of Life: And Other Dirty Jokes". Book by Willie Nelson and Larry McMurtry, 2003.

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• It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Kind, Ass, Said

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.204, Macmillan

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• Allah, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Son, Animal, Men

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 60,

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