Quotes about Angels
In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.
- Jan Hus
It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
- Karl Barth
According to the Talmud, every blade of grass has its own angel bending over it, whispering, "Grow, grow.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils"
- Joseph Alleine
What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for? "If any of you are embarrassed over me and the way I'm leading you when you get around your fickle and unfocused friends, know that you'll be an even greater embarrassment to the Son of Man when he arrives in all the splendor of God, his Father, with an army of the holy angels.
- Eugene Peterson
Pastor, we think we might be on to something. That empty tomb—could that be an echo of the empty mercy seat of the ark? That the two angels in 'dazzling clothes' who gave witness at the empty tomb of Jesus might be an allusion to the two cherubim marking the emptiness that is fullness at the ark?
- Eugene Peterson
But caveat lector: we do not read the Bible in order to reduce our lives to what is convenient to us or manageable by us - we want to get in on the great invisibles of the Trinity, the soaring adorations of the angels, the quirky cragginess of the prophets, and ... Jesus.
- Eugene Peterson
Oh ! the blessed confessors of the kingdom of Christ, who were tried like gold in the excellence of their righteousness, and obtained through the conflict in which they were set the heavenly life of angels, and laid hold upon the promises of the hidden good things of the victory of the high calling--For eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what God has prepared for them that love him.
- Eusebius of Caesarea
The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.
- Beth Moore
Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.
- Mother Teresa
While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
- Phillips Brooks