I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.
~By Billy Connolly ~
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
~By Lord Byron ~
The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
~By Randy Castillo ~
But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
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.
~By Thomas Traherne ~
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
~By Alexander Pope ~
You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.
~By James L. Buckley ~
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.
~By Agnes Macphail ~
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
~By Robert Bridges ~
If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform.
~By Mary Wilson Little ~
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.
~By George MacDonald ~
Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.
~By Robert Blair ~
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
~By Edmund Waller ~
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
~By George Edward Moore ~
I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way.
~By Della Reese ~
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
~By Josh Billings ~
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
~By Alexander Pope ~
I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.
~By Kanye West ~
I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
~By Edvard Munch ~
I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.
~By Jaclyn Smith ~
Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
~By Billy Graham ~
Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
~By John Le Carre ~
I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.
~By Paul Kantner ~
Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
~By Karl Barth ~
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.
~By Voltaire ~
Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.
~By Anna Lee ~
Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
~By Kenneth Rexroth ~
The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
~By Billy Graham ~
By that sin fell the angels.
~By William Shakespeare ~
I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.
~By Jon Carroll ~
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.
~By Leigh Steinberg ~
So, yes, I believe in angels, absolutely, I do.
~By Della Reese ~
Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
~By Allen Ginsberg ~
They talk like angels but they live like men.
~By St. Jerome ~
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
~By John Fletcher ~
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.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.
~By John Jewel ~
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
~By Jim Morrison ~
San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.
~By Chita Rivera ~
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.
~By William Blake ~
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
~By Lucretius ~
I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.
~By Courtney Love ~
Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
~By Francis Bacon ~
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
~By Matthew Fox ~
It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
~By Karl Barth ~
A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
~By Dave Matthews ~
I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.
~By Elizabeth Barton ~
We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
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.
~By Angela Carter ~
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
~By Buddha ~
This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.
~By Origen ~
They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
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.
~By Anne Rice ~
Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.
~By William Hurlbut ~
I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.
~By Ayaan Hirsi Ali ~
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
~By Ralph Cudworth ~
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
~By Pythagoras ~
For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?
~By Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ~
So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done.
~By Chuck Zito ~
The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.
~By Georg Trakl ~
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
~By Edvard Munch ~
Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.
~By Andrew Johnson ~
Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
~By Walter Lang ~
After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.
~By Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~
Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
I'm in California a lot; I go overseas sometimes and I meet more Hells Angels than other Angels do.
~By Chuck Zito ~
The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
~By Paracelsus ~
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.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
~By Origen ~
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
~By Francis Bacon ~
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
~By Adam Clarke ~
In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
~By Edward Young ~
I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
We are never like angels till our passion dies.
~By John Denham ~
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