A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
—Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French Theologian, Philosopher, Musician, Physician
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.
—Francis de Sales (1567–1622) French Catholic Saint
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we wake.
—John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater
Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking.
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French Poet, Playwright, Film Director
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy—the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.
—Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) Canadian Author, Humorist, Jurist
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 (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
When the angels present themselves, the devils abscond.
—Arabic Proverb
Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven.
—Unknown
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 (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
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 Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99) German Philosopher, Physicist
Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings.
—John Keats (1795–1821) English Poet
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
—Yiddish Proverb
All God’s angels come to us disguised.
—James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic
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 (c.1260–1327) German Christian Mystic
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.
—Indian Proverb
We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
—John Keble (1792–1866) English Anglican Priest, Poet
The angels may have wider spheres of action and nobler forms of duty than ourselves, but truth and right to them and to us are one and the same thing.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–80) American Preacher, Poet
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 (1918–91) American Baptist Religious Leader
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.
—P. J. O’Rourke (1947–2022) American Journalist, Political Satirist
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
—Luciano De Crescenzo (b.1928) Italian Writer, Film Actor, Director, Engineer
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
—Unknown
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the Infinite.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.
—Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian
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 (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker
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 (1859–1927) English Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright
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