Quotes with angels

  • We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords.
  • I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
  • 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.
  • Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
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  • Abraham Lincoln If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Lydia M. Child 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 the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Buddha I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Abraham Cowley Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Barry Unsworth Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • William Blake As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
    delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
    which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
    I collected some of their Proverbs.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Joni Mitchell Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.
    Joni Mitchell
    Canadian singer-songwriter (1943 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Fools rush in where angels fear to thread.
    An essay on criticism
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • J. du Lorens Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
    J. du Lorens
     
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  • Alexander Pope For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
    An Essay on Criticism 625
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Anne Rice I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist and author (1969 - )
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  • Agnes Macphail I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Pearl S. Buck I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Angela Carter I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • John Donne I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bill Engvall I'm a California Angels fan because that's the first game my dad took me to see, and they stuck with me.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • John leCarré, John le Carré Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
    John leCarré, John le Carré
     
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