Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rainer Maria Rilke

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

Siegfried Sassoon

Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.

John Henry Newman

Somehow I am necessary for God's purpose, as necessary in my place as an archangel in his.

John Donne

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither...

John Donne

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

John Donne

So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

John Donne

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

John Donne

In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

John Milton

Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

John Denham

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

John Calvin

Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defense, I cannot venture certainly to affirm; not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that all the angels together with one consent watch over our salvation....

John Calvin

Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.

John Calvin

The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.

John Calvin

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

John Calvin

Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first principles, or, at least, does not comprehend all those things which are necessary to be known; and that therefore progress is to be made to the very end of life: for this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end.

Joan of Arc

What concerns this dress is a small thing - less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world. I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.

Joan of Arc

I die for speaking the language of the angels.

Joan of Arc

The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.

Georg Trakl

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

John Burroughs

I am not going to advocate ... the abandoning of the improved modes of travel; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who goes afoot, while all the dark spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride.

Jimmy Page

I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.

Jimmy Page

Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.'

Madeleine L'Engle

poets are born knowing the language of angels

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

Louisa May Alcott

Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?" "Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.

John Fletcher

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

John Fowles

Medieval theologians used to dispute how the angels in the heaven spent their time, when not balancing on needle points and singing anthems to the Lord. I know. They slump glued to their clouds, glasses at the ready, as the Archangel Micheal (that well-known slasher) and stonewalling St Peter open against the Devils XI. It could not be Heaven, otherwise.

Lindsay Lohan

I'm an angel compared to some of my friends.

Lilith Saintcrow

It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel." -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

Leo Tolstoy

And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love"...

Lady Gaga

Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

Joseph Heller

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

Joseph Campbell

Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.