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
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
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
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
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
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809) American Nationalist, Author, Pamphleteer, Radical, Inventor
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
Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings.
—John Keats (1795–1821) English Poet
We are ne’er like angels till our passion dies.
—Thomas Dekker
Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
—Yiddish Proverb
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
Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven.
—Unknown
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 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
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
—John Keble (1792–1866) English Anglican Priest, Poet
When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.
—Indian Proverb
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
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
—Michelangelo (1475–1564) Italian Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Poet, Engineer
God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.
—Theodore L. Cuyler (1822–1909) American Presbyterian Clergyman, Writer
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
I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking.
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French Poet, Playwright, Film Director
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
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
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
Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
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
All God’s angels come to us disguised.
—James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic
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 there be any who understand it or not.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
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