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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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  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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• 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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• 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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• The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.

  William Blake

  Love, Angel, Joy

  William Blake (1899). “William Blake: XVII Designs to Thornton's Virgil, Reproduced from the Original Woodcuts, MDCCCXXI.”

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• To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”

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• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

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• The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Men, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Graphic Arts Books

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• Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.

  Richard Wilbur

  Inspirational, Morning, Angel

  1956 Things of This World, 'Love Calls Us to the Things of This World'.

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• When the soul is solidly rooted in... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking thrust of the heart is toward the one supreme Good, then the words of the apostle will be fulfilled. 'Pray without ceasing,' he said (I Thes. 5:17). 'In every place lift up pure hands, with no anger and no rivalry' (I Tim 2:8). Sensibility is, so to speak, absorbed by this purity. It is reshaped in the likeness of the spiritual and the angelic so that all its dealings, all its activity will be prayer, utterly pure, utterly without tarnish.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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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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• Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

  Dante Alighieri

  Butterfly, Angel, Judgment

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.522, Dante Alighieri

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• Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Song, Angel, Thinking

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.146

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  The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Dream, Sleep

  James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.22, New Line Publishing

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• He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.233

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• A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.

  Richard Crashaw

  Angel, Wings, Thee

  Richard Crashaw (1858). “The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto”, p.15

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

  Fanny Crosby

  Death, Angel, Grieving

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

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  We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

  Luciano De Crescenzo

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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