Angel Quotes - Page 33

• A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell if the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection.

  Paula Wall

  Disappointment, Grief, Perfection

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• My television teaches me that everything was wonderful in the Soviet Union. According to the programs I watch, the KGB and apparatchiks were angels, and the Stalin era was so festive that the heroes of the day must still be celebrated today.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Hero, Kgb, Eras

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

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• I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Struggle, Evil

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't look too far in the future, don't worry about how you're going to have enough time or enough money or enough smarts; the "how?" is up to God. Just put your whole focus on this moment, doing this baby step at this moment; and then once you finish that one, God and the angels will give you the next assignment and so on and so forth.

  Doreen Virtue

  Baby, Smart, Giving

  "Doreen Virtue: the oil spill". Interview with Susan Gregg, www.beliefnet.com.

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• With acting, the stark reality for women is that it's nearly impossible to get older in an elegant fashion as an actress. Either you're fighting your age, or you're having to own it in a way that feels inelegant, or you're Meryl Streep and you're an angel from God.

  Rashida Jones

  Fashion, Fighting, Reality

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2013.

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• I once read that you die because you see the Angel of Death, and you fall in love. And you fall in love so hard your soul is sucked out through your eyes, and that's the moment of death. It's a lovely, strange old Jewish legend.

  Neil Gaiman

  Falling In Love, Eye, Soul

  "Master Shaper". Interview with David Carroll, www.tabula-rasa.info. 1997.

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• They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with a rod; they went out into the hostile desert and adorned it with a pillar; they entered the furnace, fiercely heated, and sprinkled it with their dew; into the pit where they had been thrown an angel entered and taught its wild beasts to fast.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Christian, Egypt, Sea

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• To give worthy praise to the Lord's mercy, we unite ourselves with Your Immaculate Mother, for then our hymn will be more pleasing to You, because She is chosen from among men and angels. Through Her, as through a pure crystal, Your mercy was passed on to us. Through Her, man became pleasing to God; Through Her, streams of grace flowed down upon us.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Christian, Mother, Men

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• When you say your Rosary, the angels rejoice, the Blessed Trinity delights in it, my Son finds joy in it too, and I myself am happier than you can possibly guess. After the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, there is nothing in the Church that I love as much as the Rosary.

  Alanus de Rupe

  Christian, Blessed, Son

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• A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.

  Philip Pullman

  Jobs, Stories, Want

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

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• A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do. When I tell the story of Cinderella, the sprite does not want me to make it into an allegory of the fall of communism. The sprite would be unhappy if I did that.

  Philip Pullman

  Jobs, Fall, Unhappy

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.

  Simon Blackburn

  Age, Absolutism, Tongue

  Simon Blackburn (2005). “Truth: A Guide”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to the perfection of virtue.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

  John Henry Newman

  Work, Connections, Calling

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• The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Prison, Peter

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• [Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of beauty and real satisfaction, even pleasure. And this is what the soul needs.

  Thomas Moore

  Spiritual, Real, People

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• Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.

  Robert A. Burton

  Men, Long, Attending

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• The truly great writer does not want to write: he wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination. The first quivering word he puts to paper is the word of the wounded angel: pain.

  Henry Miller

  Pain, Live Life, Writing

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel visits, few and far between.

  Thomas Campbell

  Bliss, Hours, Has Beens

  1799 The Pleasures of Hope, pt.2, l.375-6.

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• I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

  Richard Price

  Relationship, Book, Thinking

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• Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you, when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

  Isaiah

  Fire, Flames, Names

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• We are never like angels till our passion dies.

  John Denham

  Passion, Dies

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• If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no inclination to change employments.

  John Newton

  Acceptance, Two, Heaven

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• If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Years, Government

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• There was a sense of being taken on a journey by the grandmaster of the road trip. You feel this weird angel taking you somewhere. You don't know where, but you trust him.

  Michelle Williams

  Taken, Journey, Road Trip

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