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When the angels present themselves, the devils abscond.
-Arabic Proverb
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We are like angels with just one wing. We can only fly by embracing each other.
-Anon.
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Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. Hebrews 13:2
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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 only.
-William Blake
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The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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We are never like angels till our passion dies.
-Sir John Denham
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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 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're gone.
-George Eliot
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The angels are so enamoured 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 there be any who understand it or not.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays, Intellect (First Series), 1841
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Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
-St. Francis De Sales
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Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.
-Billy Graham
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There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.
-St. Gregory The Great
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Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.
-Jerome K. Jerome
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, On Vanity and Vanities (1889)
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
-John Keble
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Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
-Leo The Great
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If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.
-Martin Luther
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Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.
-John Milton
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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
-Albert Schweitzer
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In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
-George Bernard Shaw
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We are each of us angels with only one wing, to fly we need only embrace each other.
-Source Unknown
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Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven.
-Source Unknown
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Books about Angels
