Angel Quotes (50) Spiritual Sayings
Summary: Definition of an Angel. An angel is a supernatural being or spirit found in various religions and mythologies. In Abrahamic religions they are often depicted as servants of God and celestial beings who act as intermediaries between heaven and Earth. In Zoroastrianism and Native American religions angels are depicted as a guiding influence or a guardian spirit.
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen
At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:
We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?
We have gone to Heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,
And now we will go back there, for there is our country.
Rumi
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Jean Paul
Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women
can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead, an
inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those
storms with hope and serenity.
Sam Ervin
Angels live no place, as God lives no place. They live in the space of eternity, in the center of our hearts, and sometimes I think we each serve as the channels and angels of God, touched by wings of silence, pushed to angelic acts....
Sophy Burnham
Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
Norman Vincent Peale
The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings; because divine wisdom has ordained that the higher should look after the lower, angels execute the divine plan for human salvation: they are our guardians, who free us when hindered and help to bring us home.
Thomas Aquinas
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself....
Thomas Aquinas
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
Thomas Moore
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.
William Blake
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 Eliot
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John Keats
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Albert Schweitzer
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
That's all an angel is....an idea of God.
Meister Eckhart
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
Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
Charles Caleb Colton
Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger.
Saint Augustine
No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.
John Cassian
The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.
Peter Wilson
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.
Rumi
Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.
Agnes of Rome
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
Lydia M. Child
An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.
Thomas Aquinas
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
John Donne
Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed.
In fact Angels have no religion as we know it...
Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever
existed on Earth...
Thomas Aquinas
Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get---people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep....
John Muir
You should be certain that angels are protecting you when you go to sleep. Yea, that they are protecting you also in all your business, whether you enter or leave your home.
Martin Luther
Angels appear in many different forms to hold your hand through the difficult times.
Doreen Virtue
A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.
Thomas Aquinas
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw
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
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint Augustine
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
Josh Billings
Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
John Keble
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Doris Lessing
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas Paine
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois
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