Angels Quotations
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| A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. | |||
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| How can angels fall asleep when the devil leaves his porch light on? | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since. | |||
| - Josh Billings | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Music is well said to be the speech of angels. | |||
| - Thomas Carlyle | |||
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| The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. | |||
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton | |||
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| Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. | |||
| - Lydia Maria Child | |||
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| I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. | |||
| - Jean Cocteau | |||
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| If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. | |||
| - Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |||
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| The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. | |||
| - Meister Eckhart | |||
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| The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. | |||
| - John Keats | |||
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| He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. | |||
| - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |||
| Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. | |||
| - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |||
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| All God's angels come to us disguised. | |||
| - James Russell Lowell | |||
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| I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. | |||
| - Michelangelo | |||
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| Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. | |||
| - John Milton | |||
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| The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. | |||
| - Jean Paul Richter | |||
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| In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. | |||
| - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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| It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. | |||
| - Voltaire | |||
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| I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit. | |||
| - Mae West | |||