Quotes on Angel

Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

Christ the Lord is risen to-day, Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.

A man's character is his fate.

Music is love in search of a word.

The golden hours on angel wings_x000D_ _x000D_ Flew o'er me and my dearie,_x000D_ _x000D_ For dear to me as light and life_x000D_ _x000D_ Was my sweet Highland Mary.

Ah! somehow life is bigger after all_x000D_ _x000D_ Than any painted angel could we see_x000D_ _x000D_ The God that is within us!

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

Good news from heaven the angels bring,_x000D_ _x000D_ Glad tidings to the earth they sing:_x000D_ _x000D_ To us this day a child is given,_x000D_ _x000D_ To crown us with the joy of heaven.

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.

In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret. His first secret was himself. He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer. He was a warring star full of endless possibilities, but in the end, as he dreamt in the backseat on the way to the Barns that night, he created only this.

Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.