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O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.
- John Milton
And chiefly thou, O spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st. Thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sattest brooding on the vast abyss, And madst it pregnant.
- John Milton
Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell explores his solitary flight.
- John Milton
I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.
- Charles Dickens
A bird must have faith in its wings in order to fly.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like Noah's dove. She made use of her wings to fly, but trust in the ark for safety.
- Thomas Watson
Let the skeptics have their doubts. I prefer to believe that ideas do have wings!
- Norman Vincent Peale
The Spirit of holiness and love is also the Spirit of wisdom and knowledge about love; and they are in fact one and the same Spirit: "Truth and love are inseparable wings—for truth cannot fly without love—and love cannot hover without truth.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.
- John Bunyan
He could not hear either; the galloping mare was almost upon him before he heard her, and even then he held his course, as if the very urgency of his wild grief and need must in a moment more find him wings
- William Faulkner
Poetry without music may be beautiful, but music gives poetry wings and elevates it into song. That may be the reason for our love of song-it has wings and lifts us; with proper songs, it is a nourishing spiritual exercise.
- Henry Ford
Christianity is wild. It's intimate. It's heartbreaking and soul-mending. It's the wings to rise above the everyday and hope of a honeymoon with the God who has loved you forever. The party has just begun, and the best is yet to come.
- Steven James