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 ~
Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.
~By Anna Lee ~
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
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 ~
A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
~By Dave Matthews ~
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
~By John Le Carre ~
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
~By Edmund Waller ~
To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
~By George Whitefield ~
I'm in California a lot; I go overseas sometimes and I meet more Hells Angels than other Angels do.
~By Chuck Zito ~
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 ~
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 ~
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
~By James Madison ~
I believe in angels, so it's simple.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
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 ~
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 ~
I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.
~By Sean O'Casey ~
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 ~
We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.
~By Keenen Ivory Wayans ~
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.
~By Elizabeth Barton ~
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 ~
I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.
~By Billy Connolly ~
Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
~By Walter Lang ~
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 ~
There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.
~By Chuck Zito ~
San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.
~By Chita Rivera ~
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.
~By Georg Trakl ~
Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.
~By Leigh Steinberg ~
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 ~
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 ~
If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform.
~By Mary Wilson Little ~
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 ~
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
~By Thomas Paine ~
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 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 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 ~
So, yes, I believe in angels, absolutely, I do.
~By Della Reese ~
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 ~
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
~By Billy Graham ~
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
~By Josh Billings ~
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 ~
Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.
~By Robert Blair ~
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
~By Richard Lovelace ~
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 ~
They talk like angels but they live like men.
~By St. Jerome ~
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 ~
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 ~
After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
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 ~
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
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 ~
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 ~
The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
~By Randy Castillo ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
~By Robert Bridges ~
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
~By Edvard Munch ~
Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
~By Kenneth Rexroth ~
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.
~By George Eliot ~
Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.
~By Jaclyn Smith ~
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 ~
Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
~By John Keble ~
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
~By Edvard Munch ~
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 ~
Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
~By Allen Ginsberg ~
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 ~
We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way.
~By Della Reese ~
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 ~
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
~By Fran Drescher ~
Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~
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 ~
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
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 ~
We are never like angels till our passion dies.
~By John Denham ~
Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.
~By John Sergeant Wise ~
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
~By Pythagoras ~
Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.
~By Joan Didion ~
Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
~By Billy Graham ~
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