Quotes about Angels
Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them.
- Paulo Coelho
Well—watching the contortions of the damned is supposed to be a favourite sport of the angels; but I believe even they don't think people happier in hell.
- Edith Wharton
Ye holy angels bright, Who stand before God's throne And dwell in glorious light, Praise ye the Lord each one. Assist our song, or else the theme Too high doth seem for mortal tongue.
- Richard Baxter
The opposite of faith is not doubt; the opposite of faith is control. You must leave the Garden, where there are angels with flaming swords to keep you from ever really returning. You must leave the womb to be born.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.
- Jentezen Franklin
When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.
- Origen
Do you know what that means? 'Man of God.' An odd name, isn't it? It teaches us that what we call angels are only men. There are no real angels. And men? Oh, there are men, all right, unfortunately for the angels and for ourselves. And what is worse is that they are real.
- Elie Wiesel
Our sages teach us that two angels attach themselves to a man at birth and never leave him. One walks before and helps him climb mountains, the other follows in the shadows and pushes him toward his fall.
- Elie Wiesel
All creatures, with two exceptions that we know of, have willingly taken the places appointed to them. The Bible speaks of angels who rebelled and therefore were cast down out of heaven, and of the fall of man.
- Elisabeth Elliot
I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.
- Richard Paul Evans
Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creation are in your very cells; you are made of the same mindstuff as the angels, the stars, and god himself.
- Deepak Chopra
Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.
- Mortimer Adler