Quotes on Angels
Looking for quotes on angels? Here’s a selection of quotes about angels from different sources. I hope they inspire you as they have inspired me.
Quotes on angels are windows through which we can take a peek at the spiritual world. They can uplift our spirits, too.
Angel Quotes
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
But men must know, that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. ~ Francis Bacon
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, A Vision of the Last Judgment
Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels. ~ Sir Thomas Browne
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. ~ Tracy Chapman
I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. ~ Jean Cocteau
God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw. ~ John Donne
When the Angels arrive, the devils leave. ~ Egyptian saying
"See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way..." ~ Exodus 23:20
Angels have immense auras, extending in some cases, like a mountain Deva, for miles. The historical attribution of wings to angelics is probably the result of the subconscious minds of human seers "clothing" the auras of angels with a form that their conscious minds could comprehend. ~ David Goddard, The Sacred Magic of Angels
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. ~ John Keble
More Quotes on Angels
Here are more inspiring quotes on angels...
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. ~ James Madison, The Federalist, Feb. 6, 1788
For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone. ~ John Milton
Funny thing, every time an angel appeared to someone in the Bible, the first thing he'd say was, "Fear not." ... I guess they were pretty spectacular. ~ Gilbert Morris, The Angels of Bastogne
Death makes angels of us all
& gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven's claws
~ Jim Morrison, An American Prayer
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. ~ Thomas Paine
We are beings of light and energy, once we accept this truth our soul can soar with the angels. ~ Michael Teal
How many angels are there? One - who transforms our live - is plenty. ~ Traditional proverb
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The Sirens of Titan
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber!
Holy angels guard thy bed!
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head.
~ Isaac Watts
When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today? ~ Joan Wester Anderson, In the Arms of Angels
The feather, whence the pen
Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,
Dropped from an angel's wing. ~William Wordsworth
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