Quotes and Sayings About Angel
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
-- A. E. Housman -
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
-- A. N. Wilson -
If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.
-- Abbott Eliot KittredgeSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
-- AberjhaniSource : Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.63, Lulu.com
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With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
-- Aberjhani -
Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
-- AberjhaniSource : Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.19, Lulu.com
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O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem! With dazzling pomp descending angels sung Good will and peace to men, to God due praise, Who on the errand of salvation sent Thee, Son Beloved! of plural Unity Essential part, made flesh that mad'st all worlds.
-- Abraham ColesSource : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”
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Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
-- Abraham Cowley -
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Every time I travel, government TSA officials seem to recognize that I'm a Muslim and 'randomly' pull me aside for 'special treatment'. My sincere hope and prayer is that, on the Day of Judgment, my Lord's angels also recognize me as a Muslim and pull me aside for special treatment
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
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Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.
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But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
-- Adam ClarkeSource : Adam Clarke (1837). “The Preacher's Manual: Including Clavis Biblica, and A Letter to a Methodist Preacher”, p.59
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Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.
-- Adelaide Anne ProcterSource : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.155
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Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder.
-- Adrian Rogers -
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I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
-- Agnes Macphail -
Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.
-- Agnes of Rome -
She was my sacred angel that I could never violate. Reira was my sanctuary. I needed something solid like that in this dirty, disappointing world.
-- Ai Yazawa -
I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl.
-- Ai Yazawa -
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sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know
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George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and I remember each and every one of them: the Deads-men, the Deadmen, the Undeads-men, the Undeadmen, the Rots, the Rotters, the Dirts, the Dirty Ones, the Grayboys, the Eaten Brains, the Eating Brains, the Mersey Beaters, the Mersey Beaten, the Bloodless, the Graves, the Headstones, and the Liverpools of Blood. Paul ripped off John's right arm and used it to slap John across the face, then he said, "Those're horrible, mate, just horrible, y'know.
-- Alan Goldsher -
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
-- Alan ValentineSource : ALAN VALENTINE (1962). “1913 America Between Two Worlds”
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This world is not my home, I'm just a passing thro', My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue; the angels beckon me from heaven's open door, and I can't feel at home in this world any more. 0 Lord, you know, I have no friend like you, if heaven's not my home then Lord what will I do; the angels beckon me from heaven's open door, and I can't feel at home in this world anymore.
-- Albert E. Brumley -
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Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
-- Albert Einstein -
The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God .
-- Albert PikeSource : Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.753, Simon and Schuster
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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones, so very vocal and authoritative! The poor devil in man needs all the support and advocacy he can get. The artist is his natural champion. When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.
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I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
-- Aldous Huxley