Angelic Quotes

• Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

  Joseph Addison

  Birthday, Mother Daughter, Fathers Day

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• All God's angels come to us disguised.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Angel, Guardian Angel

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.202

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Music, Angel

  Thomas Carlyle (1888). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)”

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• Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Losing A Loved One, Angel, Saint

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  Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Angel, Power

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• Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Motivation, Character

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

  Billy Graham

  Inspiring, Character, Angel

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

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• 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

  Angel, Men, Illumination

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• I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.

  Mae West

  Angel, Wings, Spread

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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  The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, Faith, Angel

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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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• 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, Angel, Soul

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

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• Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

  Joseph Addison

  Thank You, Daughter, Children

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• This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Wise, Philosophy, Angel

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• I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Badass, Artist, Boys

  "Hot Topic: Charlie Hunnam" by Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  Orlando Bloom

  Angel, Samurai, Saws

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Integrity, Angel, Men

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• Can one, seeing the sun with one's sensuous eyes, not rejoice? But how much more joyful it is when the mind sees with its inner eye the Sun of justice, Christ! Then in truth one rejoices with angelic joy; of this the Apostle too said: 'Our conversation is in heaven' (Phil. 3:20).

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Eye, Justice

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• Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud

  Sapphire

  Angel, Blades, Grass

  Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

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• We trust in plumed procession
  For such the angels go
  Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.

  Emily Dickinson

  Angel, Feet, Snow

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

  Josh Billings

  Sarcastic, Angel, Sarcasm

  Josh Billings (1913). “Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised”

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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

  Angel, Men, Devil

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

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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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• Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

  Lydia M. Child

  Love, Flower, Angel

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 26, 1843.

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