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 ~
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. ~By Alexander Pope ~
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. ~By John Keble ~
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 ~
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 ~
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. ~By Pythagoras ~
San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there. ~By Chita Rivera ~
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels. ~By Christopher Dawson ~
I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career. ~By Nolan Ryan ~
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 ~
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with. ~By Samuel Richardson ~
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 know I got angels watchin me from the other side. ~By Kanye West ~
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 believe in angels, so it's simple. ~By Isabelle Adjani ~
Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels. ~By Allen Ginsberg ~
The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels. ~By Georg Trakl ~
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 ~
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 ~
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. ~By Edvard Munch ~
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 ~
The nurses were all angels in my eyes. ~By Randy Castillo ~
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night. ~By Robert Bridges ~
We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be. ~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. ~By Thomas Paine ~
Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still. ~By John Fletcher ~
It is by suffering that human beings become angels. ~By Victor Hugo ~
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. ~By Richard Lovelace ~
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~By Lucretius ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ~By Saint Augustine ~
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 ~
Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels. ~By Jim Harrison ~
Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust. ~By Kenneth Rexroth ~
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 ~
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. ~By John Le Carre ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea. ~By Cyndi Lauper ~
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 ~
I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel. ~By Courtney Love ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
After being so bad I could hear the angels singing. ~By Lillie Langtry ~
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. ~By Francis Bacon ~
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 ~
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. ~By Anton Chekhov ~
A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me. ~By Dave Matthews ~
I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way. ~By Della Reese ~
Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them. ~By Leigh Steinberg ~
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 ~
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 ~
Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections. ~By Matthew Simpson ~
Yes, I'm a great believer in angels. ~By Anna Lee ~
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 ~
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above. ~By Edmund Waller ~
I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter. ~By Ayaan Hirsi Ali ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall. ~By George Whitefield ~
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 ~
We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base. ~By Keenen Ivory Wayans ~
Angels possess greater powers than do human beings. ~By Walter Lang ~
They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out. ~By Barbra Streisand ~
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 ne'er like angels till our passion dies. ~By Thomas Dekker ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
So, yes, I believe in angels, absolutely, I do. ~By Della Reese ~
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 ~
God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies. ~By Billy Graham ~
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. ~By Jim Morrison ~
Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. ~By Billy Graham ~
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. ~By James Madison ~
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 ~
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. ~By Josh Billings ~
Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique. ~By Jaclyn Smith ~
They talk like angels but they live like men. ~By St. Jerome ~
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