"We are each of us angels with only one wing and we can only fly by embracing each other."
(Luciano de Crescenzo)
"An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me."
(Blessed Pope John XXIII)
"Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you."
(Saint Francis de Sales)
"Since God often sends us inspirations by means of His angels, we should frequently return our aspirations to him by means of the same messengers."
(Saint Francis De Sales)
"If you seek an angel with an open heart... You shall always find one."
(Anonymous)
"[Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it… because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of beauty and real satisfaction, even pleasure. And this is what the soul needs."
(Saint Thomas Moore)
"And the angel said- 'I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love'..."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God."
- John Henry Newman
"Angels don't worry about you... They believe in you."
- Anonymous
"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."
(Bible: Hebrews - 13:2)
"Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger."
(Saint Augustine)
"Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening."
(Seneca)
"We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides."
(Saint Thomas Aquinas - "Summa Theologica")
"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)
"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 Eliot)
"The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit."
(Jeanne D'Arc)
"When hearts listen, angels sing."
(Anonymous)
"Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love."
(John Milton - "Paradise Lost")
"If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil."
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
"This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life."
(Saint John Chrysostom)
