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Tag Name "Angels" (830)

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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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Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal
Thrity Umrigar
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The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.
Jean Harris
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Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
Walter Lang
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Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.
Ambrose of Optina
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And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels were embracing, and Will, gazing into the flames, saw their mutual affection. More than affection: they loved each other with a passion.
Philip Pullman
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Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
Allen Ginsberg
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Men still had faults, and men will have them still He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.
Alice Foote MacDougall
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Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity. Begin today and write in it your goings and comings, your deepest thoughts, your achievements and your failures, your associations and your triumphs, your impressions and your testimonies.
Spencer W. Kimball
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Allah, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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You may have the administration of angels, you may see many miracles . . . but I claim that the gift of the Holy Ghost is the greatest gift that can be bestowed upon man.
Wilford Woodruff
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There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings
Alfred de Musset
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The Angels of (Mercy) do not enter a house in which there are pictures (of animals).
Muhammad al-Bukhari
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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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As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.
William Blake
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope
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The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.
William Blake
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
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Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.
William Blake
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
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Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.
William Carlos Williams
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For the son of man shall come in the glory of His Father, with His angels and then shall He reward every man according to his works.
Alexander Balmain Bruce
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