Sayings about Angles
If Jesus Christ comes to help me, I laugh at the angels. ~ Russian Proverbs
Be sure to send a lazy man for the angel of death. ~ Jewish Proverbs
Crime is cunning; it puts an angel in front of every devil. ~ German Proverbs
Young angel, old devil. ~ German Proverb
When the angels appear, the devils run away. ~ Egyptian Proverbs
Ugliness is the only guardian angel a woman has. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Nowadays you have to go to heaven to meet an angel. ~ Polish Proverbs
Street angel, house devil. ~ German Proverb
Quotations about Angles
I … believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings. ~ John Perry Barlow
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~ Thomas Carlyle
I believe we are free, within limits, and yet there is an unseen hand, a guiding angel, that somehow, like a submerged propeller, drives us on. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
Death is terrible, tho’ borne on angels’ wings! ~ William Blake
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~ Luciano de Crescenzo
Though women are angels, yet wedlock’s the devil. ~ Lord Byron
Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: What glorious pleasures take shape within you! ~ Hildegard Of Bingen
If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing. ~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
If I have freedom in my love, and in my soul am free, angels alone that soar above, enjoy such liberty. ~ Richard Lovelace
Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan’s gratification. ~ William Blake
All forces that reside in the body are angels. ~ Moses Maimonides
Funny thing, every time an angel appeared to someone in the Bible, the first thing he’d say was, “Fear not.” … I guess they were pretty spectacular. ~ Gilbert Morris
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. ~ Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians. ~ St Ambrose
Believers look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. ~ Billy Graham
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light. ~ Billy Graham
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. ~ St. Francis De Sales
Whenever an angel says “Be not afraid!” you’d better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way. ~ Elie Wiesel
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. ~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on? ~ Tom Waits
Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven. ~ Author Unknown
Angels shine from without because their spirits are lit from within by the light of God. ~ Eileen Elias Freeman
When one has tasted it [watermelon] he knows what the angels eat. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
Anyone can be an angel. ~ Author Unknown
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. ~ Meister Eckhart
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. ~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes
When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts. ~ Mary Baker Eddy
The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two. ~ Lord Byron
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint. ~ Albert Schweitzer
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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. ~George Elliot
Outside the open window, the morning air is all awash with angels. ~ Richard Purdy Wilbur
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ~ G.K. Chesterton
A friend is always good to have, but a lover’s kiss is better than angels raining down on me. ~ Dave Matthews
Angels are quite ample cause to cry… ~ Nicholas Gordon
They’re called “angels” because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out. ~ Barbra Streisand
I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. ~ Jean Cocteau
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. ~ William Shakespeare Quotes
If angels rarely appear, it’s because we all too often mistake the medium for the Message. ~ Eileen Elias Freeman
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~ Author Unknown
Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. ~ Bible
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. ~ Alexander Pope
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel. ~ Moses Maimonides
Tears such as angels weep. ~ John Milton
Around our pillows golden ladders rise, and up and down the skies, with winged sandals shod, the angels come, and go, the Messengers of God! ~ Richard Henry Stoddard
We are never like angels till our passion dies. ~ Sir John Denham
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company. ~ Jerome K. Jerome
Angels worship God with purity and love; men, with fear and trembling. ~ James Ellis
It is by suffering that human beings become angels. ~ Victor Hugo Quotes
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 alone. ~ William Blake
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated. ~ Milan Kundera
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels. ~ St. Bernard
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ~ Michelangelo
The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people. ~ Eric Honeycutt
The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings. ~ John Keats
All God’s angels come to us disguised. ~ James Russell Lowell
An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. ~ St Thomas Aquinas
Don’t be on the side of the angels, it’s too lowering. ~ David Herbert Lawrence
How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love! ~ Eileen Elias Freeman
We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. ~ John Keble
It is dangerous to confuse children with angels. ~ David Fyfe
Angels descending, bring from above, echoes of mercy, whispers of love. ~ Fanny J. Crosby
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When a man dies they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him. ~ The Holy Koran
The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ~ Jean Paul Richter
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. ~ John Steinbeck
Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ~ St. Augustine
Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels. ~ Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
The nurses were all angels in my eyes. ~ Randy Castillo
Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since. ~ Josh Billings
Like angel visits, few and far between. ~ Thomas Campbell
Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you. ~ Eileen Elias Freeman
I’m no angel, but I’ve spread my wings a bit. ~ Mae West
Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep — and anywhere else it is needed. ~ Jessi Lane Adams
The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace. ~ Levende Waters
We are ne’er like angels till our passion dies. ~ Thomas Dekker
Angels are like diamonds. They can’t be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique. ~ Jaclyn Smith
A pillow for thee will I bring, stuffed with down of angel’s wing. ~ Richard Crashaw
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings! ~ John Milton
Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit; for, without being seen, they are present with you. ~ St Francis of Sales
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall. ~ Francis Bacon
An angel’s arm can’t snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can’t confine me there. ~ Edward Young
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace. ~ Thérèse de Lisieux
She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed. ~ Clarice Lispector
Angels can fly directly into the heart of the matter. ~ Author Unknown
The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You can’t see them, but there they are, restoring the balance. ~ Ivan Klima
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. ~ Voltaire Quotes
I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. ~ Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus
Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven’s claws. ~ Jim Morrison
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. ~ Author Unknown
Angels are spiritual energy. ~ Alexis Flora Hope,
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. ~ Leo The Great
An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. ~ Martin Luther Quotes
While we are sleeping, angels have conversations with our souls. ~ Author Unknown
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim. ~ St. Gregory The Great