Angel quotes

"Angels teach us to love and to love well. The sayings "On earth as it is in heaven," or "As above, so below," relate to love. For as God loves us, the angels will teach us to love God, each other, and ourselves."
- Barbara Mark & Trudy Griswold, "The Angelspeake Storybook"

First, an angel is spiritually present at whatever place in physical space happens to be occupied by the body on which it acts. It can be present at that place without leaving Heaven which is its spiritual residence…
- Mortimer J. Adler, “The Angels and Us”

"True experiences of angels always lead to a greater unity."
- H.C. Moolenburgh, “Meetings With Angels

"In the Qur’an it is said that from the tears shed by this great angel [Michael] over the sins of the faithful, cherubim are formed."
- Malcolm Godwin, “Angels: An Endangered Species”

"Love... is the song of all the angels of God."
- William Law

"Keep in mind that angels do not belong to any one religion; they go beyond a single religion. The angels represent the Divine energy of God."
- Terry Lynn Taylor, "Angel Days"

"Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual, the glorious inhabitants of those sacred places where there is nothing but light and immortality; no shadow of matter for tears, discontentments, griefs, and uncomfortable passions to work upon; but all joy, tranquility, and peace, even for ever and ever..."
- Richard Hooker

"There are many, many angels, more than there are human beings. They stand before the throne of God and praise Him. At the same time, they are among us, with us. Angels are real. And they are here."
- Father Robert Faricy

"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, the visionary poet-artist of the late 1700s and early 1800s

"What is an angel? The two words that come closest to a true biblical answer are "manifestation" and "servant."
- Charlie W. Shedd, "Brush of an Angel's Wing

"If angels come not to minister us it is because we do not invite them, it is because we keep the door closed through which they might otherwise enter."
- Ralph W. Trine

A .. traditional schema is to associate each of the principal archangels with each of the seasons: Raphael/spring, Uriel/summer, Michael/fall, and Gabriel/winter.
- James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver, “Angels A to Z”

"Every redeemed one will understand the ministry of angels in their own life. The angel who was their guardian from their earliest moment, the angel who watched their steps and covered their head in the day of peril, the angel who was with them in the valley of the shadow of death, who marked their resting place, who was the first to greet them in the resurrection morning -- what will it be to hold conversation with them, and to learn the history of divine interposition in the individual life, of heavenly cooperation in every work for humanity!"
— E. G. White

"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

"Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, . . . especially the children of men."
— Richard Hooker

"God created the angels to serve Him and his people. If there is anything we can learn from the Bible about angels, it’s that they are real. Angels exist."
- Gary Kinnaman, “Angels Dark and Light”

"Think, In mounting higher,
The angels would press on us, and aspire
To drop some golden orb of perfect song
Into our deep, dear silence."
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnet XXII)

"When someone dies, an angel is there to meet them at the gates of Heaven to let them know that their life has just begun."
— Anonymous

"It must be affirmed that angels and everything existing, except God, were made by God."
— Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

"Many people think angels are only there for the big events, or when we summon them in prayer. The truth is, our angels stand beside us always. We are their work."
- Barbara Mark and Trudy Griswold, “The Angelspeake Storybook”

"To those who are willing to believe, no explanation of these events is necessary...and to those who are not willing to believe, no explanation is possible."
— Joan Wester Anderson - (Regarding the existence of Angels), Paraphrased and contributed by Marty Greer

"God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty."
— T. L. Cuyler

"We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry to evil, it is pure human love."
— N.P.Willis

|"The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels."
— Mortimer Adler, philosopher

"Reputation is what men and women think of us,
Character is what God and the angels know of us."
— Thomas Paine

"An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the Creator understands its true nature."
— John of Damascus

"A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why ... But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good."
— St. Thomas Aquinas

"I am the Angel of the Sun
Whose flaming wheels began to run
When God 's almighty breath
Said to the darkness and the Night,
Let there be light! and there was light."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
The bed be blest that I lie on.
Four angels to my bed.
Four angels round my head,
One to watch, and one to pray,
And two to bear my soul away."
— Thomas Ady (A Candle in the Dark)

"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."
— St. Augustine

"Every man contemplates an angel in his future self."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within...and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel. The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficience toward us; they regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us."
— John Calvin

"I saw Gabriel, like a maiden, or like the moon amongst the stars. His hair was like a woman's, falling in long tresses...He is the most beautiful of Angels..."
— Ruzbehan Baqli

"Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can communicate without speech, in thought."
— John of Damascus

"An angel can illume 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."
— St. Thomas Aquinas