angels

"“Perhaps you could tell me how many angels may stand on the point of a pin?”… De Salcedo snorted. “I’ll tell you. Philosophically speaking, you may put as many angels on a pinhead as you want to. Actually speaking, you may put only as many as there is room for. Enough of that. I'm interested in facts, not fancies.”"

"Angels shine from without because their spirits are lit from within by the light of God."

"Angels can fly lightly because they take God seriously."

"Angels can fly because they carry no burdens."

"Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you."

"Pay attention to your dreams — God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep."

"Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design."

"Angels fly at light speed, because they are servants of the Light."

"If angels rarely appear, it's because we all too often mistake the medium for the Message."

"Insight is better than eyesight when it comes to seeing an angel."

"Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe."

"When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels."

"How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love!"

"God not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time!"

"A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth — that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. … For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words, "The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.""

"When men began to multiply on earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw how beautiful the daughters of man were, and so they took for their wives as many of them as they chose. Then the Lord said: "My spirit shall not remain in man forever, since he is but flesh. His days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years." At that time the Nephilim appeared on earth (as well as later), after the sons of God had intercourse with the daughters of man, who bore them sons. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown."

"Angels have no back to their necks, and cannot turn their heads round."

"One angel cannot perform two duties at a time, nor are two angels sent to perform one and the same duty."

"Non Angli, sed Angeli. Not Angles, but Angels."

"From the east to the west sped the angels of the Dawn, from sea to sea, from mountain-top to mountain-top, scattering light with both their hands."

"Unbless'd thy hand! — if in this low disguise Wander, perhaps, some inmate of the skies."

"Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An Angel writing in a book of gold…"

""If 'it is good for a man not to touch a woman', then it is bad for him to touch one, for bad, and bad only, is the opposite of good. But, if though bad, it is made venial, then it is allowed to prevent something which would be worse than bad. ... Notice the Apostle's carefulness. He does not say: 'It is good not to have a wife', but, 'It is good for a man not to touch a woman'. ... I am not expounding the law as to husbands and wives, but discussing the general question of sexual intercourse – how in comparison with chastity and virginity, the life of angels, 'It is good for a man not to touch a woman'."

"At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven."

"The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels."

"On that very night the angel of Jehovah went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the As·syr′i·ans. When people rose up early in the morning, they saw all the dead bodies."

"But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection."

"For I say to you, among those born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

"Through the dim and lonely forest Comes a low sweet sound, Like the whispering of angels To the greenwood round, Bearing through the hours of midnight, On their viewless wings, Music in its measure telling High and holy things."

"If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13."

"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

"Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels."

"If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty."

"But all God's angels come to us disguised: Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God."

"For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven."

"Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? 54 How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?”"

"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. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions."

"In this dim world of clouding cares, We rarely know, till 'wildered eyes See white wings lessening up the skies, The Angels with us unawares."

"In the arms of the Angel Far away from here From this dark, cold hotel room, And the endlessness that you fear You are pulled from the wreckage of your silent revelrie You're in the arms of the Angel; may you find some comfort here."

"O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!"

"As far as angel's ken."

"For God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men Delighted, and with frequent intercourse Thither will send his winged messengers On errants of supernal grace."

"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep."

"How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!"

"The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd."

"Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws"

"Now the two angels arrived at Sod′om by evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sod′om. When Lot caught sight of them, then he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the earth."

"Then too when angel voices sung The mercy of their God, and strung Their harps to hail, with welcome sweet, That moment watched for by all eyes."

"Narrated Abu Talha: The Prophet said, "Angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or there are pictures"."

"A certain scripture mentions that humans are superior to angels. Why? Because there are people who know of evil but do not become evil. It's different from angels, who know only of good since birth. Humans have evil, but can live as good, so they are superior to angels, who know only good."