Angel Quotes - Page 5

• A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why ... But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Illumination, Two

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• It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

  William Blake

  Men, Devil, Holiness

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.455, Penguin

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• A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Integrity, Men, Order

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• I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

  Maria Callas

  Artist, Devil, Roles

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• The angels as the guardians of men are set over men as instructors and monitors. This shows the relationship that is to exist between them. Man's attitude is to be one of obedience and subjection. He is to follow the lead of the angels, and consequently some reverence is already implied in the very relationship that exists between man and angel.

  Tertullian

  Attitude, Men, Guardian

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• An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.

  John Climacus

  Passion, Humility, Pride

  Saint John (Climacus) (1959). “The Ladder of Divine Ascent”

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• Could we forbear dispute, and practise love,
  We should agree as angels do above.

  Edmund Waller

  Love, Life, Disputes

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184

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• Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

  Lydia M. Child

  Blessed, Home, Heart

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 34, 1843.

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

  Fanny Crosby

  Death, Grieving, Echoes

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

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• Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.

  John Climacus

  Humility, Pride, Doubt

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• Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the agony of the cross as a means of rescue, or at the joy of the angels of God over a rescue; we see from either that it must be a work of infinite and eternal consequence--the work of redemption.

  Herrick Johnson

  Mean, Agony, Joy

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Humanity, May, Impossible

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• The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

  W. H. Auden

  Way, Fairytale, Fairy Tale

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• Angels can help us understand what intuition means in a personal way. Angels are actually in charge of a large part of our intuitive self. Viewing intuition from the perspective of angel consciousness, we can say that intuition is our way of tapping into a higher power for guidance and awareness.

  Terry Taylor

  Character, Mean, Self

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• The power of the visible is the invisible.

  Marianne Moore

  Invisible, Visible

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.100, Penguin

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• Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• I'm an angel compared to some of my friends.

  Lindsay Lohan

  My Friends

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• the better angels of our nature

  Abraham Lincoln

  Civil War, Apocalypse, American History

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.

  George Sand

  Believe, Men, Heaven

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• Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, God, Silence

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Friendship, Memories

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

  Maimonides

  Missions

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• Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.

  Richard Hooker

  Inspirational, Children, Mean

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• So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

  St. Jerome

  Race, Heaven, Soul

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• O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Hypocrisy, May

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.334

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