Angel Quotes
"Everyone is someone's angel...."
We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to
obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper
that says, 'Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's
plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.' We can decide
to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing for
as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it.
And wherever they are, the angels will dance....Joan Wester Anderson.
We are each others' angels,
we meet when it is time....Chuck Brodsky.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we
can only fly embracing each other....Luciano De Crescenzo.
In heaven, an angel is nobody in particular....George Bernard Shaw.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby
some have entertained angels unawares....Hebrews 13:2.
Angels can fly because they take
themselves lightly....Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
Friendship is...the sort of love one can
imagine between angels....Clive Staples Lewis.
How many angels are there? One -- who
transforms our life -- is plenty....Proverb.
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 Friedrich Richter.
Love is the salutation of the
angel to the stars....Victor Hugo.
Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within
us. Angels are watching over you when times are
good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you,
whispering you are loved and blessed....Angel Blessing.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast
the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend,
that would be giving as the angels give....George MacDonald.
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten
us and direct us; and God has provided for this, by appointing
His angels to be our teachers and guides....Saint Thomas Aquinas.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us,
and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us,
and we only know them when they are gone....George Eliot.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels....Thomas Carlyle.
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.
But all God's angels come to us disguised....James Russell Lowell.
Angels capture love and sprinkle
it upon our hearts....Unknown.
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual
life in the angels. In them the intellect does not
proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior,
but knows itself through itself....St. Thomas Aquinas.
An angel is someone you feel like you've known
forever...even though you've just met....Unknown.
Angels are intelligent reflections of light,
that original light which has no beginning.
They can illuminate. They do not need
tongues or ears, for they can communicate
without speech, in thought....John of Damascus.
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 there be any
who understand it or not....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
All arrangements that are carried out between heaven and
earth are carried out through angels....Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have
not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal....Saint Paul.
Never place a period where your angel has placed a comma....Unknown.
The light that shines on the blessed angels
is the supernatural knowledge of God's essence
that is a gift of God's grace....Mortimer.
If we could perceive our angels for just a
single day, this world would never be the
same again, nor would it ever wish to be....Unknown.
The soul at its highest is found like God, but an
angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all
an angel is: an idea of God....Meister Eckhart.
Angels are speaking to all of us...some
of us are only listening better....Unknown.
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.
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love
for the sake of loving is angelic....Alphonse De Lamartine.
If we ever wish to know angels for what they truly are...
perhaps it is we who must first learn to fly....Unknown.
It is to those who perceive through symbols,
the poets, the artists and the seekers for meaning,
that the angel makes himself known....Theodora Ward.
Every blade of grass has an angel bending
over it saying, "Grow, grow"....Unknown.
To those who are willing to believe, no explanation of
these events is necessary...and to those who are not willing
to believe, no explanation is possible....Joan Wester Anderson.
What though my winged hours of bliss have been,
like angel-visits, few and far between?....Thomas Campbell.
Hush! My dream lie still and slumber, Holy angels
guard thy bed! Heavenly blessing without number
Gently falling on thy head....Isaac Watts.
A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warm, to comfort,
and command; And yet a spirit still, and bright
With something of angelic light....William Wordsworth.
An angel doesn't have to be physical...to touch you....Unknown.
The angels stand between us and God, but they are
translucent, even transparent, and they beckon
us to penetrate their luminosity....Peter Wilson.
It is wonderful that every angel, in whatever
directions he turns his body and face, sees the
Lord in front of him....Emanuel Swedenborg.
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.
Angels often work behind the scenes,
but always make their "presents" known....Unknown.
I want to be an angel, and with the
angel's stand; a crown upon my forehead,
a harp within my hand....Urania Bailey.
I will not wish thee riches nor the glow of
greatness, but that wherever thou go some
weary heart shall gladden at thy smile, or shadowed
life know sunshine for awhile. And so thy path shall
be a track of light, like angels' footsteps passing
through the night....Words on a church wall in Upwaltham, England.
Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend, who
loves not a false imagining, an unreal character in us;
but looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections,
loves in us the divine ideal of our natures -- not the
man that we are, but the angel that we may be....Stowe.
We not only live among men, but there are airy
hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on,
that see and know and appreciate our thoughts
and feelings and acts....Henry Ward Beecher.
Angel of God, my guardian dear
To whom God's love commits me here;
Ever this day be at my side,
To light and guard, to rule and guide....Traditional Catholic Prayer.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels,
we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds....Chekov.
See, I am sending an angel ahead of you
to guard you along the way....Exodus 23:20.
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.
When hearts listen, angels sing....Unknown.
When in my heart I feel a tug,
maybe it's an Angel hug....Unknown.
Words, like angels, are powers which have
invisible power over us....James Hillman.
Twice or thrice had I loved thee before
I knew thy face or name, so in a voice,
so in a shapeless flame, angels affect
us oft, and worshipped be....John Donne.
Angels help you carry the ball, carry a tune,
carry your weight and carry on....Unknown.
Your guardian Angel knows you inside and out
and loves you just the way you are....Unknown.
Wherever there is love, an Angel is flying by....Unknown.
Angels do find us in our hour of need....Amy Huffman.
Angels are able to know and understand better
than the human intellect can, precisely because
such knowledge and understanding comes to them
by way of ideas infused in them by God....Mortimer Adler.
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....St. Thomas Aquinas.
Every visible thing in this world is put
in the charge of an Angel....St. Augustine.
Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel
assigned him for his defense, I cannot venture certainly
to affirm; not one angel only has the care of
every one of us, but that all the angels together with
one consent watch over our salvation....John Calvin.
The art of being yourself at your best is
the art of unfolding your personality into
the person you want to be....Be gentle with
yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive
yourself, for only as we have the right attitude
toward ourselves can we have the right
attitude toward others....Wilfred Peterson.
And the Angel said, "I have learned
that every man lives, not through care of
himself, but by love"....Leo Tolstoy.
Angels assist us in connecting with a
powerful yet gentle force, which encourages
us to live life to its fullest....Denise Linn.
Angels walk upright, speak Hebrew, and are
endowed with understanding; they can fly in
the air, move from one end of the world to
another, and foretell the future. They have
the shape of man, but consist half of fire
and half of water....Encyclopedia Judaica.
A shiver runs down your spine when you realize
it is not our imagination. Something is
watching us out there....Sophy Burnham.
How do you know if an angel has crossed your path?
Sometimes you don't, because angels often appear as
coincidences. That is, they seem like chance events,
but they are really part of God's carefully
orchestrated plan for your life....Gary Kinnaman.
Angels live no place, as God lives no place.
They live in the space of eternity, in the center
of our hearts, and sometimes I think we each serve
as the channels and angels of God, touched by wings
of silence, pushed to angelic acts....Sophy Burnham.
Angels speak. They appear and reappear. They feel
with apt sense of emotion. While Angels may become
visible by choice, our eyes are not conducted to see
them ordinarily any more than we can see the dimensions
of a nuclear field, the structure of atoms, or the
electricity that flows through copper wiring....Billy Graham.
"Angelophany" is the visible or otherwise tangible
manifestation of angels to human beings. Abraham Lincoln
frequently mentioned that he was visited by angels at
the White House....James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver.
Angels are inseparable friends, who bring
strength and consolation to those who include
them in their lives. In truth, angels are
our best friends....Janice T. Connell.
I believe we are free, within limits, and yet there
is an unseen hand, a guiding angel, that somehow,
like a submerged propeller, drives us on....Rabindranath Tagore.
Angels can maintain anonymity as long as they
need to, pretending to be mortal when the occasion
calls for such a masquerade....Emily Hahn.
Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel
assigned him for his defense, I cannot venture
certainly to affirm; not one angel only has the care
of every one of us, but that all the angels together with
one consent watch over our salvation....John Calvin.
Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's
message, witnesses to eternity in time, to the presence
of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every
day is riddled by their traces....F. Forrester Church.
The Angel is one of those Articles of Faith as
unshakable as our belief in the existence of God,
an atom, or the ill luck of the number 13....Malcolm Godwin.
The wisdom of the ages teaches that each individual,
whether believer or not, good or bad, old or young,
sick or well, rich or poor, has a personal Guardian Angel
with him or her at every moment of life's journey....Janice T. Connell.
Angels will not run your life.
No angel will intrude on your free will.
They cannot interfere....Barbara Mark and Trudy Griswold.
One thing you can say for Guardian Angels:
they guard. They give warning when
danger approaches....Emily Hahn.
Guardian angels of the home - Rose and soft green
Healing angels - Deep sapphire blue
Angels of maternity and birth - Sky blue
Ceremonial angels - White
Angels of music - White
Nature angels - Apple green
Angels of beauty and art -- Yellow....Geoffrey Hodson.
But angels help us remember, when the urgencies
screaming for attention make us forget, when we feel
so estranged by stress or worldliness that we miss
the many splendored things. They remind us to look
beyond our everyday circumstance or stress....Timothy Jones.
We feel isolated and lonely, and it's not necessary.
Each of us has a guardian angel who works with us
as much as we will allow....Eileen Elias Freeman.
Have you ever considered that, just perhaps,
the reason you have gotten as far as you have
is because of the invisible work of anonymous
Angels? Good strangers in the night?....Gary Kinnaman.
Angels encourage us by guiding us onto a path
that will lead to happiness and hope....Andy Lakey.
When humans face testings and tragedy, they should remember
the Angels who are always standing ready to lend their
celestial assistance, comfort, and counsel....Flower A. Newhouse.
Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits
that they are angels. They become Angels when they are sent.
For the name Angel refers to their office, not their nature.
You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office,
it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger....St. Augustine.
It is often stated that when an Angel descends to the earth,
it brings with it a part of the light of the heavens,
thus perhaps explaining the strong association of white to
represent that light....James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver.
In the strictest definition, an angel is a
superior being living in the spirit world --
standing between humans and God....John Ronner.
He who has fed a stranger may have fed an Angel....The Talmud.
The minute you speak to your angel for the first time,
you will never be alone again, because our angels are
always with us. No matter where you are as you read this,
you are surrounded by angels. Your room, your office, your garden,
are filled with angelic presences....Eileen Elias Freeman.
Somehow the Angels comfort me whenever I have tears...And always
they encourage me to overcome my fears...I tell them all of
my troubles when they seem too much to bear...And I put my faith
and confidence in their almighty care....Martina Tarandek.
Our private thoughts are known only to God. The secret
thoughts of all of us are not known by angels or
demons or one another. Every prayer, however, is heard
instantly by our Guardian Angel....Janice T. Connell.
Becoming aware of our angels' hidden presence in our
lives is not difficult or arduous, but it is subtle
and requires great patience....Eileen Elias Freeman.
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 Lynn Taylor.
God created the Angels to serve Him and His people. If there
is anything we can learn from the Bible about Angels,
it's that they are real. Angels exist....Gary Kinnaman.
The angels see you as dazzling young diamonds which
are being polished to perfection....Elsa Joy Bailey.
People of goodwill long to know angels, to enjoy their
presence, power, and protection. The experience is quite
personal and different for each person....Janice T. Connell.
Angels are principally the guardians of our spirits.
Their function is not to do our work for us, but to help
us do it ourselves, by God's grace....Eileen Elias Freeman.
Ask your angels to stay as near to you as they can;
to help keep your vision clear and your presence
simple, so in all the days to come there will be a
radiance and Glory in your spirit....Karen Goldman.
Whatever you put your attention on in this life will increase in
your life. As you put your attention on angels, they will begin
increasingly to make their presence known to you....Denise Linn.
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