Quotes About Angels

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


We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.  ~ Luciano de Crescenzo


Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since.  ~ Josh Billings


I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.  ~ Marilyn Monroe


Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence.  ~ Terri Guillemets


Kill all my demons, and my angels might die too.  ~ Tennessee Williams


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


Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.  ~ John Keats


Music is well said to be the speech of angels.  ~ Thomas Carlyle


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


In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.  ~ George Bernard Shaw


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


He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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 Elliot


I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.  ~ Michelangelo


Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.  ~ Mother Teresa


I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.  ~ Terry Pratchett


Imagine them as they were first conceived, part musical instrument and part daisy.  ~ P.K. Page


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 the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.  ~ Lydia M. Child


The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people.  ~ Eric Honeycutt


The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace.  ~ Levende Waters


All God's angels come to us disguised.  ~ James Russell Lowell


Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit; for, without being seen, they are present with you.  ~ St Francis of Sales


We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.  ~ Rula Lenska


To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.  ~ Teresa of Avila


An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.  ~ St Thomas Aquinas


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


Angels have no philosophy but love.  ~ Terri Guillemets